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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... writes from his own mind , he writes very rapidly . The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading , in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book . " And it is Boswell who tells Bennet Langton's ...
... writes from his own mind , he writes very rapidly . The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading , in order to write : a man will turn over half a library to make one book . " And it is Boswell who tells Bennet Langton's ...
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... write it . Dryden and Pope provided writing in which the vir- tues of good prose were exhibited to so high a degree that those to whom the word " poetry " means only a superlatively effective way of writing call this writing by that ...
... write it . Dryden and Pope provided writing in which the vir- tues of good prose were exhibited to so high a degree that those to whom the word " poetry " means only a superlatively effective way of writing call this writing by that ...
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... write the Lives . Obviously then , Johnson meant what he said about having part of his life to himself and felt that what he had already done relieved him of his moral obligation almost as completely as the pension had relieved him of ...
... write the Lives . Obviously then , Johnson meant what he said about having part of his life to himself and felt that what he had already done relieved him of his moral obligation almost as completely as the pension had relieved him of ...
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