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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... certainly read extensively , and yet when Boswell asked him how he had attained the astonishing familiarity with our ... certainly a desultory reader and certainly got more out of the books he dipped into than others got by reading them ...
... certainly read extensively , and yet when Boswell asked him how he had attained the astonishing familiarity with our ... certainly a desultory reader and certainly got more out of the books he dipped into than others got by reading them ...
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... certainly a positive virtue . But Boswell's love for wine and women was im- moderate , to say the least , and his admiration for the great some- times expressed itself in peculiar ways . It was Oscar Wilde who remarked that the only ...
... certainly a positive virtue . But Boswell's love for wine and women was im- moderate , to say the least , and his admiration for the great some- times expressed itself in peculiar ways . It was Oscar Wilde who remarked that the only ...
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... certainly no evidence that Johnson himself aimed at anything which he regarded as original so far as in- tention or method were concerned . He certainly did not have consciously in mind , as Boswell certainly did , a new theory of ...
... certainly no evidence that Johnson himself aimed at anything which he regarded as original so far as in- tention or method were concerned . He certainly did not have consciously in mind , as Boswell certainly did , a new theory of ...
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