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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... doubt , tends to jus- tify the abstractness of so much of The Rambler . But he has little to say concerning rhetoric or diction and , indeed , in a passage written later in The Idler he heaps scorn upon a kind of writing which some ...
... doubt , tends to jus- tify the abstractness of so much of The Rambler . But he has little to say concerning rhetoric or diction and , indeed , in a passage written later in The Idler he heaps scorn upon a kind of writing which some ...
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... doubt much that the eighteenth century was ready to accept as " according to nature " was accepted on no better evidence than this . It was one of its most characteristic errors to " assume that the customs of its little island are the ...
... doubt much that the eighteenth century was ready to accept as " according to nature " was accepted on no better evidence than this . It was one of its most characteristic errors to " assume that the customs of its little island are the ...
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... doubt she guessed ( and if so , she guessed correctly ) that once her intentions were known , a storm would break about her head ; and no doubt she desired to put off as long as possible the day when it would do so . But perhaps nothing ...
... doubt she guessed ( and if so , she guessed correctly ) that once her intentions were known , a storm would break about her head ; and no doubt she desired to put off as long as possible the day when it would do so . But perhaps nothing ...
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