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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... talk : " This is not so easy as you seem to think ; for if you were to make little fishes talk , they would talk like WHALES . " The other was when , at Reynolds's house , the conversation hap- pened to turn upon music and Johnson ...
... talk : " This is not so easy as you seem to think ; for if you were to make little fishes talk , they would talk like WHALES . " The other was when , at Reynolds's house , the conversation hap- pened to turn upon music and Johnson ...
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... talk than there are at the present moment . Yet the fact remains that the members of at least certain groups did engage in conversation of a somewhat different kind from that which flourishes today , and the obvious questions to be ...
... talk than there are at the present moment . Yet the fact remains that the members of at least certain groups did engage in conversation of a somewhat different kind from that which flourishes today , and the obvious questions to be ...
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... talk for talk's sake would be the least admissible of aims . Johnson and Co. was not composed of men who strove to be " smart " in any of the several meanings of the term ; not one of them had what we call " sophistication " as his ...
... talk for talk's sake would be the least admissible of aims . Johnson and Co. was not composed of men who strove to be " smart " in any of the several meanings of the term ; not one of them had what we call " sophistication " as his ...
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