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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... knew well enough , as he also knew it was not pri- marily his genius but his deficiencies that cut him off - his physi- cal grotesqueness no less than his melancholy and his obsessions . He might go for a " frisk " with Beauclerk and ...
... knew well enough , as he also knew it was not pri- marily his genius but his deficiencies that cut him off - his physi- cal grotesqueness no less than his melancholy and his obsessions . He might go for a " frisk " with Beauclerk and ...
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... knew that his old employer , Edward Cave , had once seen a ghost which had so horrified him that he had not liked to talk of the experience ; that Goldsmith's brother , a clergyman , had also seen one ; and that his early friend ...
... knew that his old employer , Edward Cave , had once seen a ghost which had so horrified him that he had not liked to talk of the experience ; that Goldsmith's brother , a clergyman , had also seen one ; and that his early friend ...
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... knew . But has the horror of his last dreadful days ever been presented more simply or more impressively than in the following passage ? " He was always careful of his money , and was , therefore , no liberal entertainer ; but was less ...
... knew . But has the horror of his last dreadful days ever been presented more simply or more impressively than in the following passage ? " He was always careful of his money , and was , therefore , no liberal entertainer ; but was less ...
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