Friendships Across Ages: Johnson and Boswell : Holmes and LaskiLexington Books, 2008 - 193 páginas Friendships Across Ages is about how two friendships, one and a half centuries apart, between aged men of great distinction, Samuel Johnson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and much younger, gifted, though flawed, men, James Boswell and Harold Laski respectively, resulted in writings of lasting importance. |
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... relationships are striking . Some examples : The age discrepancy in the friendships is a remarkable similarity . At their first meetings with their elder friends - to - be , Boswell was twenty - two and Laski twenty - three . In ...
... relationships are striking . Some examples : The age discrepancy in the friendships is a remarkable similarity . At their first meetings with their elder friends - to - be , Boswell was twenty - two and Laski twenty - three . In ...
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... relationships . Both Holmes and Johnson counseled , anguished , and remonstrated about these parental problems . As surrogate fathers they were genuinely concerned about the sons and their real fathers . Laski and Boswell were both more ...
... relationships . Both Holmes and Johnson counseled , anguished , and remonstrated about these parental problems . As surrogate fathers they were genuinely concerned about the sons and their real fathers . Laski and Boswell were both more ...
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... relationships . For one thing , they lasted too long for that . 1 Nor were the two friendships really " power relation- ships , " i.e. , with one friend holding power over the other — as with a teacher and student . Such a relationship ...
... relationships . For one thing , they lasted too long for that . 1 Nor were the two friendships really " power relation- ships , " i.e. , with one friend holding power over the other — as with a teacher and student . Such a relationship ...
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... relationship but that of Holmes and Laski as well . Though both Boswell and Laski were often scorned outsiders , each managed to befriend this much older Olympian figure , the great man of his age , and carried on for twenty years a ...
... relationship but that of Holmes and Laski as well . Though both Boswell and Laski were often scorned outsiders , each managed to befriend this much older Olympian figure , the great man of his age , and carried on for twenty years a ...
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... relationship to Johnson . Although they have long been out of print , the Holmes- Laski letters are constantly cited ... relationships and 6 Introduction.
... relationship to Johnson . Although they have long been out of print , the Holmes- Laski letters are constantly cited ... relationships and 6 Introduction.
Contenido
FROM DOCTOR JOHNSON TO JUSTICE HOLMES TO PROFESSOR LASKI | 9 |
JOHNSON | 27 |
BOSWELL | 55 |
HOLMES | 67 |
LASKI | 101 |
FATHERS AND FEMALES | 123 |
THE OLYMPIANS COMPARED | 135 |
THE OUTSIDERS COMPARED | 163 |
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Friendships Across Ages: Johnson and Boswell : Holmes and Laski Jeffrey O'Connell,Thomas E. O'Connell Vista de fragmentos - 2008 |
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