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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... pleasure is ob- tained ; yet , thus unassisted by interest or passion , they have passed through variations of taste ... pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted , and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth . " Later ...
... pleasure is ob- tained ; yet , thus unassisted by interest or passion , they have passed through variations of taste ... pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted , and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth . " Later ...
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... Pleasure of itself is not a vice , " he declared , and again and again he makes use of phrases like one he wrote to ... pleasures which , as a moralist , he was compelled to regard as merely per- missible palliatives . The Preface makes ...
... Pleasure of itself is not a vice , " he declared , and again and again he makes use of phrases like one he wrote to ... pleasures which , as a moralist , he was compelled to regard as merely per- missible palliatives . The Preface makes ...
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... pleasure and to impart instruction ; but neither the pleasure it gives nor the instruction it provides constitutes any world apart or requires for its proper appreciation any unique faculties . Johnson , of course , would have been ...
... pleasure and to impart instruction ; but neither the pleasure it gives nor the instruction it provides constitutes any world apart or requires for its proper appreciation any unique faculties . Johnson , of course , would have been ...
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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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