Samuel JohnsonH. Holt, 1944 - 599 sider 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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... learned and elegant people loved and cultivated him before Boswell came upon the scene . The fact is , of course , that Boswell , far from inventing or even discovering the fascination of Johnson's personality , deliberately sought him ...
... learned and elegant people loved and cultivated him before Boswell came upon the scene . The fact is , of course , that Boswell , far from inventing or even discovering the fascination of Johnson's personality , deliberately sought him ...
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... learned . " And from this it is evident that when Johnson , adopting the familiar distinction between Nature and Art , called Shakespeare ( as all previous critics had called him ) a poet of Nature , he did not mean as a romantic critic ...
... learned . " And from this it is evident that when Johnson , adopting the familiar distinction between Nature and Art , called Shakespeare ( as all previous critics had called him ) a poet of Nature , he did not mean as a romantic critic ...
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... learned among the Scotch how much more im- portant that name ought to be if young James could take The Rambler in tow . But there was still another motive which may have been stronger than any of the others . Boswell , as we know , was ...
... learned among the Scotch how much more im- portant that name ought to be if young James could take The Rambler in tow . But there was still another motive which may have been stronger than any of the others . Boswell , as we know , was ...
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