 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1914 - Liczba stron: 634
...view which he says ' has been so long advanced as to be commonly believed,' that ' the true character of men may be found in their letters, and that he...writes to his friend lays his heart open before him.' Which is the true or the truer statement? The Oxford prose-writers, whether saint or sage, disagree;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1914 - Liczba stron: 626
...view which he says ' has been so long advanced as to be commonly believed,' that ' the true character of men may be found in their letters, and that he...writes to his friend lays his heart open before him.' Which is the true or the truer statement? The Oxford prose-writers, whether saint or sage, disagree... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1914 - Liczba stron: 220
...benevolence and particular fondness. There is nothing but liberality, gratitude, constancy, and tenderness. It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may bo found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. "But... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - Liczba stron: 1452
...benevolence, and particular fondness. There is nothing but liberality, gratitude, constancy, and tenderness. It has been so long said as to be commonly believed,...the friendships only of children. Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves, and of which, by whatever accident exposed, they... | |
 | John Calhoun Stephens - Liczba stron: 840
...Perusal of their private Letters, than any other way." Dr. Johnson remarks in his Life of Pope that, "It has been so long said as to be commonly believed...characters of men may be found in their letters." (Hill, Lives, 3: 206). 3. Not identified; see No. 81. 4. John, 1: 5. 5. Daniel, 7: 9, 22. 6. Hebrews,... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - Liczba stron: 272
...benevolence and particular fondness. There is nothing but liberality, gratitude, constancy, and tenderness. It has been so long said as to be commonly believed...heart open before him. But the truth is that such were simple friendships of the Golden Age, and are now the friendships only of children.19 Johnson emphatically... | |
 | Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer - 2004 - Liczba stron: 300
...benevolence and particular fondness. There is nothing but liberality, gratitude, constancy, and tenderness. It has been so long said as to be commonly believed...the Golden Age, and are now the friendships only of children.37 " Rambler, V, 47 (No. 152, 31 August 1751). 36 To Mrs Thrale, 27 October 1777, Chapman,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cook - 1996 - Liczba stron: 252
...cite Johnson's explicit contradiction of this theory of letter-writing in his Life of Pope (1779): It has been so long said as to be commonly believed,...the friendships only of children. Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves, and of which, by whatever accident exposed, they... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - Liczba stron: 290
...of pastoral intimacy voiced in his early letter to Congreve is now revoked. Dismissing expectations "that the true characters of men may be found in their letters" as belonging only to some mythical "Golden Age" he finds in the form a crippling mixture of self-deception... | |
 | Ignatius Sancho - 1998 - Liczba stron: 388
...reminds us that even at the time of writing, a correspondent is creating a controlled image of himself: It has been so long said as to be commonly believed,...the friendships only of children. Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves, and of which, by whatever accident exposed, they... | |
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It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their Letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden... 
