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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... literary chore . It was at Birmingham also that he first met Mrs. Henry Porter , whom he was soon to marry . Some eight months before that event , and before the Voyage was actually published , he had by letter ap- plied unsuccessfully ...
... literary chore . It was at Birmingham also that he first met Mrs. Henry Porter , whom he was soon to marry . Some eight months before that event , and before the Voyage was actually published , he had by letter ap- plied unsuccessfully ...
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... literary job ( and all his major works were thus commissioned ) in the full confidence that , though he would approach the job as a job , he would also do it better than anyone else working for love or fame at his chosen avocation would ...
... literary job ( and all his major works were thus commissioned ) in the full confidence that , though he would approach the job as a job , he would also do it better than anyone else working for love or fame at his chosen avocation would ...
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... literary usage could not be cited to settle a question . But it is significant that he assumed literary usage to be the only sort which carries much weight , and that he did undertake to make his own taste or judgment the de- ciding ...
... literary usage could not be cited to settle a question . But it is significant that he assumed literary usage to be the only sort which carries much weight , and that he did undertake to make his own taste or judgment the de- ciding ...
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