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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... fact that his name was kept on the college books , certain fixed charges continuing to be entered , long after he had left to return as a student no more . That Johnson planned to return is sug- gested by the fact that he left a rather ...
... fact that his name was kept on the college books , certain fixed charges continuing to be entered , long after he had left to return as a student no more . That Johnson planned to return is sug- gested by the fact that he left a rather ...
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... fact less often commented upon - the fact , that is to say , that Langton and Beauclerk enjoyed his . While he took pride as well as pleasure in being accepted as a companion by two gay young men , they , to be sure , no doubt took some ...
... fact less often commented upon - the fact , that is to say , that Langton and Beauclerk enjoyed his . While he took pride as well as pleasure in being accepted as a companion by two gay young men , they , to be sure , no doubt took some ...
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... fact that he was now both adding still more new friends to his circle and cultivating still more as- siduously those ... fact that he was admitted is no doubt due in part the further fact that when we think of Johnson we are very likely ...
... fact that he was now both adding still more new friends to his circle and cultivating still more as- siduously those ... fact that he was admitted is no doubt due in part the further fact that when we think of Johnson we are very likely ...
Contents
The Lichfield Prodigy | 1 |
London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
Copyright | |
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