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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... thoughts into a special language ; he wrote rap- idly , if elaborately , because he thought in the terms of his writ- ing . To that extent the style was if not the whole man , then one of the man's aspects , and if sometimes the effect ...
... thoughts into a special language ; he wrote rap- idly , if elaborately , because he thought in the terms of his writ- ing . To that extent the style was if not the whole man , then one of the man's aspects , and if sometimes the effect ...
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... thought of the possibility that he might no longer be able to put down what he had seen , and said , and thought . But for a full analytical statement and justification of Boswell's feeling one must go , not back but even further for ...
... thought of the possibility that he might no longer be able to put down what he had seen , and said , and thought . But for a full analytical statement and justification of Boswell's feeling one must go , not back but even further for ...
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... thought doctrinal differences so important but because he thought them so unim- portant - far less important than practical unity . When Boswell asked him , on a subsequent occasion , whether it was necessary to believe all the Thirty ...
... thought doctrinal differences so important but because he thought them so unim- portant - far less important than practical unity . When Boswell asked him , on a subsequent occasion , whether it was necessary to believe all the Thirty ...
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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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