The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... wrote with such reluctance and looked upon everyone as a blockhead who wrote for any reason other than remuneration ; moreover , he showed such little interest in his own work that he could not convincing- ly be described as serious . I ...
... wrote with such reluctance and looked upon everyone as a blockhead who wrote for any reason other than remuneration ; moreover , he showed such little interest in his own work that he could not convincing- ly be described as serious . I ...
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... wrote in these years , almost without a break : first in The Rambler and later in The Adventurer and The Idler . A state pension which the King granted him at the request of the many friends he had acquired , saved him from financial ...
... wrote in these years , almost without a break : first in The Rambler and later in The Adventurer and The Idler . A state pension which the King granted him at the request of the many friends he had acquired , saved him from financial ...
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... wrote : " The vile melancholy of my father made me mad all my life , at least not sober " . This statement like many other Johnsonian statements , should be taken quite literally and consistently . To begin with , Johnson wrote " made ...
... wrote : " The vile melancholy of my father made me mad all my life , at least not sober " . This statement like many other Johnsonian statements , should be taken quite literally and consistently . To begin with , Johnson wrote " made ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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