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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... soon to marry . Some eight months before that event , and before the Voyage was actually published , he had by letter ap- plied unsuccessfully to Edward Cave , editor of The Gentleman's Magazine , for employment as a writer of literary ...
... soon to marry . Some eight months before that event , and before the Voyage was actually published , he had by letter ap- plied unsuccessfully to Edward Cave , editor of The Gentleman's Magazine , for employment as a writer of literary ...
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... soon . " What vast improvements are daily made in our morals ! What an unfortunate dog am I , to come into the world at least half a century too soon ! What would I give to be born twenty years hence ! There will be damned fine doings ...
... soon . " What vast improvements are daily made in our morals ! What an unfortunate dog am I , to come into the world at least half a century too soon ! What would I give to be born twenty years hence ! There will be damned fine doings ...
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... soon discussing Homer , and soon sitting down to a very satisfactory dinner . In such a mood the recurrent fancy that he was a model of politeness struck Johnson , and after he had stood up to signalize the departure of the ladies , he ...
... soon discussing Homer , and soon sitting down to a very satisfactory dinner . In such a mood the recurrent fancy that he was a model of politeness struck Johnson , and after he had stood up to signalize the departure of the ladies , he ...
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