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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... Johnson's cordiality , saw him for the third time just a little less than a month after their first encounter . Moreover , the phrase " so as to talk of ' em abroad " suggests both that he had some tendency to regard John- son less as ...
... Johnson's cordiality , saw him for the third time just a little less than a month after their first encounter . Moreover , the phrase " so as to talk of ' em abroad " suggests both that he had some tendency to regard John- son less as ...
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... Johnson , who seldom had anything good to say of intoxica- tion , said what is recorded above , should remember that he added : " Brandy will do soonest for a man what ... JOHNSON IN HIS TRAVELLING DRESS as Described [ 264 ] Samuel Johnson.
... Johnson , who seldom had anything good to say of intoxica- tion , said what is recorded above , should remember that he added : " Brandy will do soonest for a man what ... JOHNSON IN HIS TRAVELLING DRESS as Described [ 264 ] Samuel Johnson.
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... Johnson's tendency to assume that good conversation necessarily implies a contest for superiority . Another clue is supplied by the curious arguments Johnson used in an attempt to defend the rather narrow limits which he tended to place ...
... Johnson's tendency to assume that good conversation necessarily implies a contest for superiority . Another clue is supplied by the curious arguments Johnson used in an attempt to defend the rather narrow limits which he tended to place ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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