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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... least six or eight years , beginning soon after the ap- pearance of his laudatory poem , he not only made frequent con- tributions including poems , brief " lives , " and other miscellane- ous items but also selected material for ...
... least six or eight years , beginning soon after the ap- pearance of his laudatory poem , he not only made frequent con- tributions including poems , brief " lives , " and other miscellane- ous items but also selected material for ...
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... least in the presence of Fanny Burney , who describes him at her father's house , where : " He ... talked all the talk , affronted nobody , and delighted everybody . " " I never saw him more sweet , " she goes on , " nor better attended ...
... least in the presence of Fanny Burney , who describes him at her father's house , where : " He ... talked all the talk , affronted nobody , and delighted everybody . " " I never saw him more sweet , " she goes on , " nor better attended ...
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... least , it was not she who abandoned her children , but her children who , led by the very determined Queeney , abandoned her . She should not have married Piozzi of all people for a lengthy list of reasons , any one of which would have ...
... least , it was not she who abandoned her children , but her children who , led by the very determined Queeney , abandoned her . She should not have married Piozzi of all people for a lengthy list of reasons , any one of which would have ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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