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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... "
The works of Samuel Johnson - Страница 148
по Samuel Johnson - 1824
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The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-century Familiar ...

Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 страници
...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...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...
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Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader

Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer - 2004 - 300 страници
...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...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,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...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...
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Twenty Questions: (posed by Poems)

J. D. McClatchy - 1998 - 236 страници
...about us, because they plumb deeper, than conversation does. Dr. Johnson is less easily convinced: "Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves . . . and, certainly, what we hide from ourselves we do not show to our friends. There is, indeed, no transaction...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 страници
...Gray's Odes - the mythic and contradictory terms in which letters were theorized: "It has been so long said as to be commonly believed that the true characters...Age, and are now the friendships only of children" (para. 273). Thus the rhetorical formalities of the genre (a "calm and deliberate performance in the...
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Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation

Bharat Tandon - 2003 - 320 страници
...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...children. Very few can boast of hearts which they dare to lay open to themselves, and of which, by whatever accident exposed, they do not shun a distinct...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

John Richetti - 2005 - 974 страници
...takes up the question of 'hypocrisy' in personal correspondence. He points out the fallacy of believing that 'the true characters of men may be found in their letters', suggesting, on the contrary, that there is 'no transaction which offers stronger temptations to fallacy...
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British ...

Susan Scott Parrish - 2012 - 344 страници
..."Letters were to be written in the heart's blood, they practically were to be wept" (49). friendship, "such were the simple friendships of the Golden Age,...which they dare lay open to themselves . . . and, certainly, what we hide from ourselves we do not shew to our friends. There is, indeed, no transaction...
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A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia

Aaron Santesso - 2006 - 230 страници
...shepherds memorialized on Achilles's shield exemplify this — reminding us of Johnson's comparison: "Such were the simple friendships of the Golden Age, and are now the friendships of children." Above all, he identifies the order and simplicity of the natural world as primary objects...
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Das eigene und das fremde Leben: biographische Identitätsentwürfe in der ...

Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 страници
...Anstrengung, Literarizität.24 Die Vorstellung einer authentischen epistolaren Selbstpräsentation, "that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him," befindet Johnson schlicht als naiv: "[SJuch were simple friendships of the Golden Age," denn "certainly...
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