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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... conversation , but was merely his oc- casional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of ...
... conversation , but was merely his oc- casional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his discourse at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of ...
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... conversation was certainly more formal , more dogmatic , and more weighty than conversation usually was - even though Boswell's account tends to make it seem less often playful than do the accounts of Mrs. Thrale and Fanny Burney . Not ...
... conversation was certainly more formal , more dogmatic , and more weighty than conversation usually was - even though Boswell's account tends to make it seem less often playful than do the accounts of Mrs. Thrale and Fanny Burney . Not ...
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... conversation in his journal re- veals that it was provoked by a discussion of his own struggles with melancholy . Now , in so far as the kind of conversation which Johnson cultivated and directed is peculiar to him and came into being ...
... conversation in his journal re- veals that it was provoked by a discussion of his own struggles with melancholy . Now , in so far as the kind of conversation which Johnson cultivated and directed is peculiar to him and came into being ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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