 | Brian Ambroziak - 2005 - 284 páginas
...Roman monuments and picturesque landscapes. "The man who has not been to Italy," wrote Samuel Johnson, "is always conscious of an inferiority from his not having seen what is expected a man should see."7 The lessons of the Grand Tour were more personalized by Sir John Soane... | |
 | Brigitte Glaser, Hermann Josef Schnackertz - 2005 - 232 páginas
...not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority", bemerkte Dr. Johnson 1776 und fügte hinzu: „The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranian,"2 Lord James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson. Ed. GB Hill, rev. LF Powell. Oxford... | |
 | Brian Fagan - 2006 - 318 páginas
...finishing school for the aristocracy. "Sir," pronounced Dr. Samuel Johnson, "a man who has not been to Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from...grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean."3 An Excursion to Acquire Taste Until the late sixteenth century, the journey through... | |
 | Clare Haynes - 2006 - 252 páginas
...Hegemony of the Gentleman Samuel Johnson (1709-84), who never visited Italy, remarked that 'a man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority,...having seen what it is expected a man should see'. These remarks are quoted frequently to demonstrate the cultural and social power of the grand tour.... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - 2007 - 764 páginas
...antiquity, and especially Rome, was the sine qua non. As Dr Samuel Johnson observed: 'Sir, a man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority,...travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean', for 'all our religion, all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come from the shores... | |
 | Donatella Abbate Badin - 2007 - 301 páginas
...end of the age when Dr. Johnson (who had not taken the Grand Tour himself) could say "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority,...travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean" (Boswell's Life of Johnson, April 11 th , 1776, qtd. in Pfister, 8). In the latter part of the century... | |
 | Stephen J. Spignesi - 2007 - 324 páginas
...certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago." 9. "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority,...having seen what it is expected a man should see." 10. "All Italians are plunderers. Not all, but a good part." 11. "Italy, and the spring and first love... | |
 | Barbara Levine, Kirsten Jensen - 2007 - 216 páginas
...experience during their journey. Samuel Johnson once remarked that "a man who has not been to ltaly, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not...having seen what it is expected a man should see." His pithy remark, however, also sums up the dilemma faced by those who were able to travel to foreign... | |
 | Gardner Dozois - 2007 - 704 páginas
...never actually had a chance to work with the real thing. And besides, as Dr. Sam says, A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.... | |
 | Vojtech Jirat-Wasiuty?ski, Anne Elizabeth Dymond, Vojt?ch Jirat-Wasiuty?ski - 2007 - 337 páginas
...their foreign policy for economic and cultural reasons. In the words of Dr Johnson, recorded in 1776: 'The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On these shores were the four great Empires of the world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian and the... | |
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A journey to Italy was still in his thoughts. He said, "A man who had not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. 
