Samuel JohnsonH. Holt, 1944 - 599페이지 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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... actually unrecognized - when all this has been said of his power to represent what the reader rec- ognizes as a true picture of human nature and human life . For the moment , however , the points to be made are , first , that John- son ...
... actually unrecognized - when all this has been said of his power to represent what the reader rec- ognizes as a true picture of human nature and human life . For the moment , however , the points to be made are , first , that John- son ...
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... actually heard the conversation itself . We are probably , in other words , nearly as close to Johnson as it was ever possible for anyone to get . At least one thing more remains to be said . Curiously selfless as Boswell's great work ...
... actually heard the conversation itself . We are probably , in other words , nearly as close to Johnson as it was ever possible for anyone to get . At least one thing more remains to be said . Curiously selfless as Boswell's great work ...
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... actually performed the feat is all but incredible . He was , after all , in his sixty - fifth year ; he had never been outside of England ; he loved comfort ; he professed to de- spise the Scotch ; and he had , or pretended to have , as ...
... actually performed the feat is all but incredible . He was , after all , in his sixty - fifth year ; he had never been outside of England ; he loved comfort ; he professed to de- spise the Scotch ; and he had , or pretended to have , as ...
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