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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Page 113
... means of de- liverance than supplications , by which insolence is elated , and tears , by which cruelty is gratified . ” But the thing one recognizes is by no means as easily de- scribed by a formula as would at first sight seem to be ...
... means of de- liverance than supplications , by which insolence is elated , and tears , by which cruelty is gratified . ” But the thing one recognizes is by no means as easily de- scribed by a formula as would at first sight seem to be ...
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... mean that a young man , who seemed so proud of his incon- stancy , was actually already determined that some great man should be the means of making him also great ? There is no reason for supposing - in fact , there is good reason for ...
... mean that a young man , who seemed so proud of his incon- stancy , was actually already determined that some great man should be the means of making him also great ? There is no reason for supposing - in fact , there is good reason for ...
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... mean to admire what often seems to most of us perversely wrong . It means only that there is always in it , however wrong it may be , something subtle , or solid , or bold , which is , of course , to say " something good in itself ...
... mean to admire what often seems to most of us perversely wrong . It means only that there is always in it , however wrong it may be , something subtle , or solid , or bold , which is , of course , to say " something good in itself ...
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The Lichfield Prodigy | 1 |
London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
Copyright | |
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