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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... remarked , quite a David sallying forth to slay a giant with his slingshot , though it is certainly in just that character that the letter is written , and he seems indeed to have been , at this moment , more in a mood to dramatize ...
... remarked , quite a David sallying forth to slay a giant with his slingshot , though it is certainly in just that character that the letter is written , and he seems indeed to have been , at this moment , more in a mood to dramatize ...
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... remarked with great acute- ness to Boswell in the course of one of their earliest meetings : " When I was running ... remarking that it is much better to have it understood that a nobleman goes through the door before a valet than it ...
... remarked with great acute- ness to Boswell in the course of one of their earliest meetings : " When I was running ... remarking that it is much better to have it understood that a nobleman goes through the door before a valet than it ...
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... remarked , " I used always to choose the wrong side of a debate , because most ingenious things , that is to say , most new things , could be said upon it , " and on other occasions he admitted with equal freedom that something of the ...
... remarked , " I used always to choose the wrong side of a debate , because most ingenious things , that is to say , most new things , could be said upon it , " and on other occasions he admitted with equal freedom that something of the ...
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