 | John Augustine Zahm - 1913 - 564 דפים
...of will be in many points inferior to that of the schoolboy." "At the time the Tatlcr first appeared in the female world any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured," and it was then considered "more important for a woman to dance a minuet well than to know a foreign... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 דפים
...professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance; and in the female world, any acquaint- [50 ance with books was distinguished only to be censured....and the wealthy; he therefore presented knowledge hi the most alluring form, not lofty and austere, but accessible and familiar. When he showed them... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 דפים
...characters of his readers made proper. That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing...ashamed of ignorance; and in the female world, any acquaint- [50 ance with books was distinguished only to be censured. His purpose was to infuse literary... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 394 דפים
...proper. That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the fay, the idle, and the wealthy: he therefore presented knowledge in the most alluring form, not lofty... | |
 | 1889 - 874 דפים
...and Learning. 525 tion of feminine education in his time : " At the time the Tatler first appeared in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured." The doctor, who had no little indulgence for the sex he bullied so unmercifully, and which adored him... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 דפים
...later eighteenth-century criticism: 142 That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing...therefore presented knowledge in the most alluring form . . . His attempt succeeded; inquiry was awakened, and comprehension expanded. An emulation of intellectual... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 דפים
...to note in his 1779 'Life of Addison': "That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing...with books was distinguished only to be censured". Addison and Steele both attacked Restoration comedy for its "corruption and degeneracy" - Steele's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 דפים
...which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learnmg were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female...presented knowledge in the most alluring form, not * Taste must decide. WAHTON. C. . «-J lofty and austere, but accessible and familiar. When he shewed... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 604 דפים
...question must have been the very pariahs of knowledge ; for Johnson says, speaking of that period, " that men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance,...with books was distinguished only to be censured." The mass of the people were not only ignorant, but they had not the least idea that they might he,... | |
 | Various - 1868 - 644 דפים
...whose intellectual and literary tone was almost as low as it could be; "when," according to Johnson, " men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance...with books was distinguished only to be censured." It seems to be generally true that criticism does not so much form a public opinion in literary matters,... | |
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That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured. 
