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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... sometimes in mean houses , which are set open at night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cellars , among the riot and filth of the meanest and most profligate of the rabble ; and some- times , when he had not money to support even ...
... sometimes in mean houses , which are set open at night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cellars , among the riot and filth of the meanest and most profligate of the rabble ; and some- times , when he had not money to support even ...
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... sometimes comic , sometimes grave , which he would throw in with infinite fertility of fancy , were a treat , which though not always to be purchased by five and twenty cups of tea I have often had the happiness to enjoy for less than ...
... sometimes comic , sometimes grave , which he would throw in with infinite fertility of fancy , were a treat , which though not always to be purchased by five and twenty cups of tea I have often had the happiness to enjoy for less than ...
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... sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloomi- ness of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , sometimes in ...
... sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloomi- ness of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis , sometimes in ...
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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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