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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الصفحة 105
Joseph Wood Krutch. one of them remarked , showed as great a delight in being thus liberated as ever schoolboys did in the departure of a school- master . Yet despite everything tending to keep the sexes apart , it is abundantly evident ...
Joseph Wood Krutch. one of them remarked , showed as great a delight in being thus liberated as ever schoolboys did in the departure of a school- master . Yet despite everything tending to keep the sexes apart , it is abundantly evident ...
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... remarked with great acute- ness to Boswell in the course of one of their earliest meetings : " When I was running ... remarking that it is much better to have it understood that a nobleman goes through the door before a valet than it ...
... remarked with great acute- ness to Boswell in the course of one of their earliest meetings : " When I was running ... remarking that it is much better to have it understood that a nobleman goes through the door before a valet than it ...
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... remarked in the Life of Pope , " writing only to poets and philosophers , " and it was by no means in vain that he addressed himself to the general public . That public had never previously been given much critical writing which could ...
... remarked in the Life of Pope , " writing only to poets and philosophers , " and it was by no means in vain that he addressed himself to the general public . That public had never previously been given much critical writing which could ...
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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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