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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... thing he saw nor the thing which he considered of the first importance . To him Shakespeare is , first of all , the poet who describes " nature , " and by this he meant , as has already been pointed out , the world which is known to ...
... thing he saw nor the thing which he considered of the first importance . To him Shakespeare is , first of all , the poet who describes " nature , " and by this he meant , as has already been pointed out , the world which is known to ...
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... thing ceases to be gossip . No doubt this eighteenth - century faith in the importance of the comedy of manners owed its existence in part at least to a current of skepticism concerning the extent to which it was pos- sible to push our ...
... thing ceases to be gossip . No doubt this eighteenth - century faith in the importance of the comedy of manners owed its existence in part at least to a current of skepticism concerning the extent to which it was pos- sible to push our ...
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... thing stated . But on another occa- sion , when he had been compelled to suffer distraction from his own ideas while ... things , that is to say , most new things , could be said upon it , " and on other occasions he admitted with equal ...
... thing stated . But on another occa- sion , when he had been compelled to suffer distraction from his own ideas while ... things , that is to say , most new things , could be said upon it , " and on other occasions he admitted with equal ...
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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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