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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... true of hu- man nature or human institutions is one thing , but it is another to marvel that , if there were too many Greeks in Rome to suit Juvenal's taste , Johnson can , without too much stretching a point , maintain that in London ...
... true of hu- man nature or human institutions is one thing , but it is another to marvel that , if there were too many Greeks in Rome to suit Juvenal's taste , Johnson can , without too much stretching a point , maintain that in London ...
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... true function of a standard dictionary in stabilizing further a language already formed and entered upon its classic phase . It is true that on no other occasion did he under- take anything that demanded so much methodical labor . It is ...
... true function of a standard dictionary in stabilizing further a language already formed and entered upon its classic phase . It is true that on no other occasion did he under- take anything that demanded so much methodical labor . It is ...
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... true that , as Johnson himself pointed out , a man both poor and humbly born can hardly be accused of being prejudiced for mean ends in favor of either the privileges of birth or the privileges of wealth . It is also true that he stood ...
... true that , as Johnson himself pointed out , a man both poor and humbly born can hardly be accused of being prejudiced for mean ends in favor of either the privileges of birth or the privileges of wealth . It is also true that he stood ...
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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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