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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... persons and he had little use for any other kind . " Sooner than hear of the Punic War , " writes Arthur Murphy , " he would be rude to the person that introduced the subject " ; and as we know from other recorded remarks , he used ...
... persons and he had little use for any other kind . " Sooner than hear of the Punic War , " writes Arthur Murphy , " he would be rude to the person that introduced the subject " ; and as we know from other recorded remarks , he used ...
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... person - especially , of course , if that person happened to be one whom he loved . In this respect he behaved very much as he did when the ques- tion was one not of misconduct but of hardship . Johnson's the- oretical Toryism made him ...
... person - especially , of course , if that person happened to be one whom he loved . In this respect he behaved very much as he did when the ques- tion was one not of misconduct but of hardship . Johnson's the- oretical Toryism made him ...
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... person for whom all schools of art are equally fine is the auctioneer . One is tempted to add that the only person to whom all great men are equally interesting is the autograph collector . And though Boswell was certainly more than an ...
... person for whom all schools of art are equally fine is the auctioneer . One is tempted to add that the only person to whom all great men are equally interesting is the autograph collector . And though Boswell was certainly more than an ...
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