The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... true . Astronomy can regularly predict : astrology cannot . And yet , to be honest , try how much you can really predict the reactions even of those you know best ; it may prove chastening to find how often one is quite uncertain ; how ...
... true . Astronomy can regularly predict : astrology cannot . And yet , to be honest , try how much you can really predict the reactions even of those you know best ; it may prove chastening to find how often one is quite uncertain ; how ...
Pagina 122
... true that ' Johnson never inquired what poets were trying to do ' ; for he inquired when dealing with the Metaphysicals , and when dealing with Pope . It is not true that ' he could see nothing in the splendour and elevation of Gray ...
... true that ' Johnson never inquired what poets were trying to do ' ; for he inquired when dealing with the Metaphysicals , and when dealing with Pope . It is not true that ' he could see nothing in the splendour and elevation of Gray ...
Pagina 183
... true of any man since Adam . It is certainly not true of Boswell . And even if it were true ? Are men's merits to be judged by Gallup polls ? Not everyone liked Johnson - far from it ; does that make Boswell his superior ? Not everyone ...
... true of any man since Adam . It is certainly not true of Boswell . And even if it were true ? Are men's merits to be judged by Gallup polls ? Not everyone liked Johnson - far from it ; does that make Boswell his superior ? Not everyone ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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