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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... death ; yet there is no man , says Tully , who does not believe that he may yet live another year ; and there is none who does not , upon the same principle , hope another year for his parent or his friend : but the fallacy will be in ...
... death ; yet there is no man , says Tully , who does not believe that he may yet live another year ; and there is none who does not , upon the same principle , hope another year for his parent or his friend : but the fallacy will be in ...
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... Death , which had always seemed very terrible to him , was still some three years and nine months away , but the clouds of misery which were to engulf him were already beginning to gather . The pen- sion preserved him from want and his ...
... Death , which had always seemed very terrible to him , was still some three years and nine months away , but the clouds of misery which were to engulf him were already beginning to gather . The pen- sion preserved him from want and his ...
Sivu 547
... death ) is merely a prayer that he may remember those same warn- ing words . But fear of death can be much more than merely a reluctance to quit life , and in Johnson's case it was . He was a courageous man who had borne poverty , ill ...
... death ) is merely a prayer that he may remember those same warn- ing words . But fear of death can be much more than merely a reluctance to quit life , and in Johnson's case it was . He was a courageous man who had borne poverty , ill ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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