The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... things are civilized . If we are temp- ted at moments into doubt or disillusion about the eighteenth century , because much of it seems crass , or gross , or dull , let us look back at what it could build . Such things are far from ...
... things are civilized . If we are temp- ted at moments into doubt or disillusion about the eighteenth century , because much of it seems crass , or gross , or dull , let us look back at what it could build . Such things are far from ...
Pagina 294
... things mended. Eight hundred guineas for Animated Nature seems not illiberal. 1 All the same I suspect that Goldsmith's ignorance of animal life has been exaggerated by anecdotal friends, and too uncritically swallowed by later critics ...
... things mended. Eight hundred guineas for Animated Nature seems not illiberal. 1 All the same I suspect that Goldsmith's ignorance of animal life has been exaggerated by anecdotal friends, and too uncritically swallowed by later critics ...
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... things , one of those excellent comic characters whose comedy depends on their unconsciousness ; who are amusing , not so much by trying to say amusing things , but by saying things they do not realize to be amusing at all . Dr Primrose ...
... things , one of those excellent comic characters whose comedy depends on their unconsciousness ; who are amusing , not so much by trying to say amusing things , but by saying things they do not realize to be amusing at all . Dr Primrose ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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