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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... asked him one evening when the post went out and , on being told that it would leave in about half an hour , said merely : " Then we shall do very well . " He instantly sat down , composed an Idler ( about a thousand words ) , and when ...
... asked him one evening when the post went out and , on being told that it would leave in about half an hour , said merely : " Then we shall do very well . " He instantly sat down , composed an Idler ( about a thousand words ) , and when ...
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... asked him if he had never been accustomed to wear a night - cap . He said , ' No ' . I asked if it was best not to do it . He said he had that custom by chance ; ' and perhaps no man shall ever know whether ' tis best to sleep with or ...
... asked him if he had never been accustomed to wear a night - cap . He said , ' No ' . I asked if it was best not to do it . He said he had that custom by chance ; ' and perhaps no man shall ever know whether ' tis best to sleep with or ...
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... asked to name his own terms , asked for only two hundred guineas - no doubt because he had no idea at the time how considerable his contribution was to come to be . The terms were immediately accepted . The oldest of the poets ...
... asked to name his own terms , asked for only two hundred guineas - no doubt because he had no idea at the time how considerable his contribution was to come to be . The terms were immediately accepted . The oldest of the poets ...
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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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