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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... less conspicuously and less successfully in a similar position but we still have no name for their pro- fession . The year 1746 , which was that of Walmesley's mild reproach , happened also to be one in which Johnson's literary labors ...
... less conspicuously and less successfully in a similar position but we still have no name for their pro- fession . The year 1746 , which was that of Walmesley's mild reproach , happened also to be one in which Johnson's literary labors ...
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... less important anecdotists tell us furnishes a valuable supplement which indicates that Johnson talked as well ( though in a manner sometimes slightly different ) to others as he did to Boswell ; yet these reports are far less full than ...
... less important anecdotists tell us furnishes a valuable supplement which indicates that Johnson talked as well ( though in a manner sometimes slightly different ) to others as he did to Boswell ; yet these reports are far less full than ...
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... less easily defensible than ) the statement that no one writes letters any more . Talk that is no less talk for its own sake still does go on , sometimes bril- liantly ; and letters - even long formal letters - still are written . But ...
... less easily defensible than ) the statement that no one writes letters any more . Talk that is no less talk for its own sake still does go on , sometimes bril- liantly ; and letters - even long formal letters - still are written . But ...
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