Johnson & Goldsmith & Their PoetryAMS Press, 1971 - 175 pages |
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Page 43
... Boswell , and in greatest detail in Rasselas . " That his view of life was profoundly and consistently sad is of course very clear . Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas - the vanity not of human wishes only , but of everything human - was ...
... Boswell , and in greatest detail in Rasselas . " That his view of life was profoundly and consistently sad is of course very clear . Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas - the vanity not of human wishes only , but of everything human - was ...
Page 168
... Boswell had now come upon the scene , and in his wonderful record we can follow his hero into all the details of his life . Liberated by his pension from the compulsion of the daily task , he now gave him- self more and more to the ...
... Boswell had now come upon the scene , and in his wonderful record we can follow his hero into all the details of his life . Liberated by his pension from the compulsion of the daily task , he now gave him- self more and more to the ...
Page 169
... Boswell testifies , days of vigorous exertion . " Prejudiced as he was against all things Scottish , 2 he none the less saw much that appealed to him in the feudal manners of the remote districts visited . But if Boswell had reason so ...
... Boswell testifies , days of vigorous exertion . " Prejudiced as he was against all things Scottish , 2 he none the less saw much that appealed to him in the feudal manners of the remote districts visited . But if Boswell had reason so ...
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