Samuel JohnsonH. Holt, 1944 - 599 من الصفحات Samuel Johnson was a pessimist with an enormous zest for living. It has been said that no one was ever more typically English and it has also been said that he is one of the world's greatest eccentrics. But no other single trait of his character is quite so striking as the strange combination of deeply pessimistic convictions with an enormous - almost Gargantuan - appetite for learning, for literature, for good company, and for food. The literature surrounding Samuel Johnson is enormous and there is probably no other English man of letters except Shakespeare whom so many people acknowledge as the chief interest in their lives. They not only write books and read papers, they also form clubs, give dinners, stage celebrations, and collect curios. |
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... Mere drudgery could not accomplish what he proposed.1 The first dictionaries were merely lists of hard words explained . Medieval scholars , when they found in a Latin text a word not familiar to them , were accustomed to " gloss " it ...
... Mere drudgery could not accomplish what he proposed.1 The first dictionaries were merely lists of hard words explained . Medieval scholars , when they found in a Latin text a word not familiar to them , were accustomed to " gloss " it ...
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... merely pessimistic theme . Rasselas , we here perceive , did not leave the valley merely in order to find out whether , in any vulgar sense , men prospered more outside it than he did within its confines . He knew that he had in the ...
... merely pessimistic theme . Rasselas , we here perceive , did not leave the valley merely in order to find out whether , in any vulgar sense , men prospered more outside it than he did within its confines . He knew that he had in the ...
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... merely names attached to certain poems , and informa- tion about each of them is relevant to the proper understanding of those poems . Johnson never goes so far as to say that Milton was a bad man and therefore a bad poet . He is so far ...
... merely names attached to certain poems , and informa- tion about each of them is relevant to the proper understanding of those poems . Johnson never goes so far as to say that Milton was a bad man and therefore a bad poet . He is so far ...
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The Lichfield Prodigy | 15 |
London or The Full Tide of Human Existence | 37 |
Running About the World 65 | 61 |
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