Samuel JohnsonH. Holt, 1944 - 599 sivua 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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... actually takes is concerned , that position is completely une- quivocal . Shakespeare maintains the only unity which is actually important - the unity of action . " His plan has commonly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle ...
... actually takes is concerned , that position is completely une- quivocal . Shakespeare maintains the only unity which is actually important - the unity of action . " His plan has commonly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle ...
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... actually performed the feat is all but incredible . He was , after all , in his sixty - fifth year ; he had never been outside of England ; he loved comfort ; he professed to de- spise the Scotch ; and he had , or pretended to have , as ...
... actually performed the feat is all but incredible . He was , after all , in his sixty - fifth year ; he had never been outside of England ; he loved comfort ; he professed to de- spise the Scotch ; and he had , or pretended to have , as ...
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... actually goes , is perfectly genuine . But it does not go quite so far as might at first sight be supposed . True , he had " seen but little . " On the other hand , he did not suppose that much of that kind of seeing was necessary to ...
... actually goes , is perfectly genuine . But it does not go quite so far as might at first sight be supposed . True , he had " seen but little . " On the other hand , he did not suppose that much of that kind of seeing was necessary to ...
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