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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... whole papers which deserve to be remembered , not likely ever to be much read again as a whole . Yet the Dictionary , successive revisions of which continued to bear his name , maintained a position as the dic- tionary of the English ...
... whole papers which deserve to be remembered , not likely ever to be much read again as a whole . Yet the Dictionary , successive revisions of which continued to bear his name , maintained a position as the dic- tionary of the English ...
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... whole , and the elementary deficiencies of the furnishing were the result of his careless habits rather than of any desperate poverty . The house itself , which Carlyle was later to seek out and which has more recently served the ...
... whole , and the elementary deficiencies of the furnishing were the result of his careless habits rather than of any desperate poverty . The house itself , which Carlyle was later to seek out and which has more recently served the ...
الصفحة 320
... whole of a play rather than its con- stituent parts . In so far as his predecessors had attempted analytical appreciations , they had tended to discuss " the beauties of Shakespeare " -i.e . , isolated poetic passages - or , at most ...
... whole of a play rather than its con- stituent parts . In so far as his predecessors had attempted analytical appreciations , they had tended to discuss " the beauties of Shakespeare " -i.e . , isolated poetic passages - or , at most ...
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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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