Samuel JohnsonH. Holt, 1944 - 599 pages 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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... Gentleman's Journal , which began a short career as far back as 1692 - and there were at the moment other digests of newspapers . But The Gentleman's Journal had been anemic and dilettante and The Gentleman's Magazine , perhaps because ...
... Gentleman's Journal , which began a short career as far back as 1692 - and there were at the moment other digests of newspapers . But The Gentleman's Journal had been anemic and dilettante and The Gentleman's Magazine , perhaps because ...
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... gentleman , ' I think , Sir , you were saying something about , - ' pausing in a high flutter of expectation . The gentleman , provoked at his in- ordinate vanity , resolved not to indulge it , and with an ex- quisitely sly air of ...
... gentleman , ' I think , Sir , you were saying something about , - ' pausing in a high flutter of expectation . The gentleman , provoked at his in- ordinate vanity , resolved not to indulge it , and with an ex- quisitely sly air of ...
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... gentleman - he had , that is to say , attended Oxford ( which he left without taking a degree ) , made a European tour in the company of a future lord , and then , on an allowance of a thousand pounds a year , settled down to the ...
... gentleman - he had , that is to say , attended Oxford ( which he left without taking a degree ) , made a European tour in the company of a future lord , and then , on an allowance of a thousand pounds a year , settled down to the ...
Contents
The Lichfield Prodigy | 1 |
London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
Copyright | |
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