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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Joseph Wood Krutch. Birmingham the essays , now lost , which he is supposed to have contributed to the local newspaper were probably his first pub- lished prose compositions and his translation from the French of the Voyage to Abyssinia ...
Joseph Wood Krutch. Birmingham the essays , now lost , which he is supposed to have contributed to the local newspaper were probably his first pub- lished prose compositions and his translation from the French of the Voyage to Abyssinia ...
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... supposed necessary to those who do not regularly study them . Thus , when a reader not skilled in physick happens in Milton upon this line , pining atrophy , Marasmus , and wide - wasting pestilence , he will , with equal expectation ...
... supposed necessary to those who do not regularly study them . Thus , when a reader not skilled in physick happens in Milton upon this line , pining atrophy , Marasmus , and wide - wasting pestilence , he will , with equal expectation ...
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... supposed to have done . What Mrs. Thrale , Fanny Burney , and less important anecdotists tell us furnishes a valuable supplement which indicates that Johnson talked as well ( though in a manner sometimes slightly different ) to others ...
... supposed to have done . What Mrs. Thrale , Fanny Burney , and less important anecdotists tell us furnishes a valuable supplement which indicates that Johnson talked as well ( though in a manner sometimes slightly different ) to others ...
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