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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... imagination was neither admitted nor even dreamed of by Johnson . To him , as to most seventeenth and eighteenth cen- tury critics , the debate was not concerning Imagination versus Fancy but concerning Imagination versus Judgment as ...
... imagination was neither admitted nor even dreamed of by Johnson . To him , as to most seventeenth and eighteenth cen- tury critics , the debate was not concerning Imagination versus Fancy but concerning Imagination versus Judgment as ...
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... imagination to become a poet . For all these reasons there is nothing lacking to make the following descrip- tion of ... imagining some- thing greater than it knows , always endeavouring more than it can do . " To assist these powers ...
... imagination to become a poet . For all these reasons there is nothing lacking to make the following descrip- tion of ... imagining some- thing greater than it knows , always endeavouring more than it can do . " To assist these powers ...
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... imagination . " But learning , ingenuity and effort are to him futile as ends in themselves . The metaphysical poets ... imagining that Donne's ingenuities had , for the author , a real emotional meaning . To him all these poets seem to ...
... imagination . " But learning , ingenuity and effort are to him futile as ends in themselves . The metaphysical poets ... imagining that Donne's ingenuities had , for the author , a real emotional meaning . To him all these poets seem to ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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