Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Johnson . He may not , therefore , de- scend to bringing in the brown " cloaths " and the wig , the scraped lemon ... Johnson can be paraphrased . After Boswell , what remains for an outsider is to assess Johnson's quality as a man and ...
... Johnson . He may not , therefore , de- scend to bringing in the brown " cloaths " and the wig , the scraped lemon ... Johnson can be paraphrased . After Boswell , what remains for an outsider is to assess Johnson's quality as a man and ...
Sivu 310
... Johnson a superb per- sonality . But the broad base of common sense he is credited with having remains , I think , to be questioned . The man had lived in the world , he had been poor and miserable , he had seen a great deal of human ...
... Johnson a superb per- sonality . But the broad base of common sense he is credited with having remains , I think , to be questioned . The man had lived in the world , he had been poor and miserable , he had seen a great deal of human ...
Sivu 312
... Johnson's debt to Boswell is enormous ; except for his satellite , he would today not be much more than a name and we should marvel that he arose to dominate an age . Yet Boswell has preserved a worthy man . The bigotry , and the ...
... Johnson's debt to Boswell is enormous ; except for his satellite , he would today not be much more than a name and we should marvel that he arose to dominate an age . Yet Boswell has preserved a worthy man . The bigotry , and the ...
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