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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... thing that Vol- taire had written " ; Voltaire , acknowledging a copy of the first French translation sent him by ... things eternal . Rasselas , as was observed to me by a very accomplished lady , may be considered as a more enlarged ...
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... thing stated . But on another occa- sion , when he had been compelled to suffer distraction from his own ideas while ... things , could be said upon it , " and on other occasions he admitted with equal freedom that something of the same ...
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... things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety . The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no man , but a very impudent dog indeed , can ...
... things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety . The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him ; and no man , but a very impudent dog indeed , can ...
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