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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... considered as drudgery for the blind , as the proper toil of artless industry ; a task that requires neither the light of learning , nor the activity of genius , but may be successfully performed without any higher quality than that of ...
... considered as drudgery for the blind , as the proper toil of artless industry ; a task that requires neither the light of learning , nor the activity of genius , but may be successfully performed without any higher quality than that of ...
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... considered wit which is , at once , natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that , which he that never found it , wonders how he missed ; to wit of this ...
... considered wit which is , at once , natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknowledged to be just ; if it be that , which he that never found it , wonders how he missed ; to wit of this ...
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... considered the union possible , that he hoped it might take place , and that he agreed with a friend concerning " the Doctor's propensity to love The Vain World in various ways . " Nothing indicates that Mrs. Thrale ever seri- ously ...
... considered the union possible , that he hoped it might take place , and that he agreed with a friend concerning " the Doctor's propensity to love The Vain World in various ways . " Nothing indicates that Mrs. Thrale ever seri- ously ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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