The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 145
... hope as something precious . When hope is lost , human melancholy reaches its depth : " Melancholy , having tortured her prisoner for a time , consigns him at last to the cruelty of Despair " , we read in Johnson's curious allegory ...
... hope as something precious . When hope is lost , human melancholy reaches its depth : " Melancholy , having tortured her prisoner for a time , consigns him at last to the cruelty of Despair " , we read in Johnson's curious allegory ...
Page 146
... Hope is itself a species of happiness , and perhaps the chief happiness which this World affords , but like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed " ( 127 , vol . I , nr . 137 ) . Hope is life ; hope creates new activity and new ...
... Hope is itself a species of happiness , and perhaps the chief happiness which this World affords , but like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed " ( 127 , vol . I , nr . 137 ) . Hope is life ; hope creates new activity and new ...
Page 174
... hope , because the objects both of fear and hope are yet uncer- tain , so we ought not to trust the representations of one more than of the other , because they are both equally fallacious " ; " nor has any man found the evils of life ...
... hope , because the objects both of fear and hope are yet uncer- tain , so we ought not to trust the representations of one more than of the other , because they are both equally fallacious " ; " nor has any man found the evils of life ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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