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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... Italy and left them all at home to shift for themselves . " Putting aside the question whether a visit to Italy in 1782 would have been any great hardship for a group of active chil- dren , we must consider whether Mrs. Thrale left them ...
... Italy and left them all at home to shift for themselves . " Putting aside the question whether a visit to Italy in 1782 would have been any great hardship for a group of active chil- dren , we must consider whether Mrs. Thrale left them ...
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... Italy , and with more security : your rank will be higher , and your fortune more under your own eye . I desire not to detail all my reasons , but every argument of prudence and interest is for England , and only some phantoms of ...
... Italy , and with more security : your rank will be higher , and your fortune more under your own eye . I desire not to detail all my reasons , but every argument of prudence and interest is for England , and only some phantoms of ...
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... Italy : " If I grow much worse , I shall be afraid to leave my physicians . . if I grow much better , of which there ... Italian journey was never to be made , he did set out a week later upon what had become an almost annual pilgrimage ...
... Italy : " If I grow much worse , I shall be afraid to leave my physicians . . if I grow much better , of which there ... Italian journey was never to be made , he did set out a week later upon what had become an almost annual pilgrimage ...
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The Lichfield Prodigy | 1 |
London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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