The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 43
... Vanity of Human Wishes . However , not the least strong of human wishes is to read about their vanity ; and Rasselas , though eclipsed in brilliance by its twin , Voltaire's Candide , which 1 For the whole subject , see B. B. Hoover ...
... Vanity of Human Wishes . However , not the least strong of human wishes is to read about their vanity ; and Rasselas , though eclipsed in brilliance by its twin , Voltaire's Candide , which 1 For the whole subject , see B. B. Hoover ...
Pagina 107
... Vanity of Human Wishes , was free at least from this element of the fictitious . For , if there was anything Johnson never doubted , it was precisely this ' vanity of vanities ' . Here at least he could really unload his heart . Yet ...
... Vanity of Human Wishes , was free at least from this element of the fictitious . For , if there was anything Johnson never doubted , it was precisely this ' vanity of vanities ' . Here at least he could really unload his heart . Yet ...
Pagina 119
... Vanity of vanities ' may be true ; but , in practice , it seems to me a less wise and healthy conclusion than Voltaire's ' Il faut cultiver son jardin . ' Johnson too , no doubt , held that a man should cultivate his garden ; but only ...
... Vanity of vanities ' may be true ; but , in practice , it seems to me a less wise and healthy conclusion than Voltaire's ' Il faut cultiver son jardin . ' Johnson too , no doubt , held that a man should cultivate his garden ; but only ...
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