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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... London was to Johnson first and foremost not London's filth or suffering or degradation . For him London was above all the center of learning and poetry , the market to which any man might bring such wares as he had to sell . Cities ...
... London was to Johnson first and foremost not London's filth or suffering or degradation . For him London was above all the center of learning and poetry , the market to which any man might bring such wares as he had to sell . Cities ...
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... London had nothing more to show , and wondered that when women had once seen the world , they could not be content to stay at home . " But for him London was not a collec- tion of sights . It was , first of all , simply the place where ...
... London had nothing more to show , and wondered that when women had once seen the world , they could not be content to stay at home . " But for him London was not a collec- tion of sights . It was , first of all , simply the place where ...
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... London with , for example , the paragraph just referred to on Villiers , which is , of course , one of the purple patches in Pope's Moral Essays . Mr. T. S. Eliot has recently written an introduction to a new edition of London and has ...
... London with , for example , the paragraph just referred to on Villiers , which is , of course , one of the purple patches in Pope's Moral Essays . Mr. T. S. Eliot has recently written an introduction to a new edition of London and has ...
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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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