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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... seems reasonable , therefore , to assume that he was first aroused to a sense of his own powers by social contacts , and if this is true , then it is easy to date the beginning of his career . His cousin Cornelius , or " Parson , " Ford ...
... seems reasonable , therefore , to assume that he was first aroused to a sense of his own powers by social contacts , and if this is true , then it is easy to date the beginning of his career . His cousin Cornelius , or " Parson , " Ford ...
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... seems to most of us perversely wrong . It means only that there is always in it , however wrong it may be , something subtle , or solid , or bold , which is , of course , to say " something good in itself . " And that something , in ...
... seems to most of us perversely wrong . It means only that there is always in it , however wrong it may be , something subtle , or solid , or bold , which is , of course , to say " something good in itself . " And that something , in ...
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... seems to let out of the bag one of the many cats which must have been confined there ) refers sadly to the fact that the " frightful instance of human wretchedness " supplied by the daughters " has given great occa- sion to the Enemy to ...
... seems to let out of the bag one of the many cats which must have been confined there ) refers sadly to the fact that the " frightful instance of human wretchedness " supplied by the daughters " has given great occa- sion to the Enemy to ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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