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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... things serious talkers concern themselves with today . Johnson , to be sure , generalized freely enough about morals and about the broad principles of government , but not all of his intellectual con- temporaries were as certain as he ...
... things serious talkers concern themselves with today . Johnson , to be sure , generalized freely enough about morals and about the broad principles of government , but not all of his intellectual con- temporaries were as certain as he ...
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... things , ever so much grandeur , ever so much ele- gance , ever so much desire that every body should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety . The master of the house is ...
... things , ever so much grandeur , ever so much ele- gance , ever so much desire that every body should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety . The master of the house is ...
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... things is he , Yet are the trunks , which do to us derive Things in proportion fit , by perspective Deeds of good men ; for by their living here , Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . " Who , " he asks , " but Donne would have ...
... things is he , Yet are the trunks , which do to us derive Things in proportion fit , by perspective Deeds of good men ; for by their living here , Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . " Who , " he asks , " but Donne would have ...
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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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