Samuel Johnson: A Personality in ConflictAuckland University Press, 1971 - 168페이지 "This book traces the origin and course of the 'general disease' of Dr Johnson's life, the 'vile melancholy which tormented him during much of his life. The evidence is all available in the records of Dr Johnson's life and in his writings, which are more often than not autobiographical. George Irwin has brought it together in an illuminating account of Johnson's uneasy relations with his mother, his struggles to understand and master his neurosis, and the relief which finallyu came through the largely unconscious agency of Mrs Thrale..."--Publisher's description. |
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... conversation excellence ; they will , therefore , more willingly allow your pretentions as a writer.109 And years later , as a young man in his early twenties , Johnson , the bookseller's son , was when in genteel company still , as ...
... conversation excellence ; they will , therefore , more willingly allow your pretentions as a writer.109 And years later , as a young man in his early twenties , Johnson , the bookseller's son , was when in genteel company still , as ...
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... conversation that Johnson wished to surpass others . ' Perhaps no other kind of superior- ity ' , he writes in Rambler , No. 101 , ' is more flattering or alluring than that which is conferred by the powers of con- versation ' . ' None ...
... conversation that Johnson wished to surpass others . ' Perhaps no other kind of superior- ity ' , he writes in Rambler , No. 101 , ' is more flattering or alluring than that which is conferred by the powers of con- versation ' . ' None ...
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... conversation ; there is no end of his talk or his attention ; to speak or to hear is equally pleasing ; for he still fancies that he is teaching or learning something , and is free for the time from his own reproaches . ' But there is ...
... conversation ; there is no end of his talk or his attention ; to speak or to hear is equally pleasing ; for he still fancies that he is teaching or learning something , and is free for the time from his own reproaches . ' But there is ...
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able Anna Seward Annals Ashbourne Baretti Birmingham bookseller Boswell says Boswell writes Boswell's Bosworth brother childhood choly Clifford companion conflict Cornelius David Garrick days later dear Lady Diaries Dictionary distress disturbances early Easter Edial emotional escape father fear feelings felt Ford Grammar School guilt happiness Hawkins Hector Hill Boothby hope idle Idler Johns Johnson told Johnson wrote journey knew Langton learning Letters Lichfield Lichfield Grammar School literary live London Lucy Porter Market Bosworth melan melancholy Michael Johnson mind Misc months mother mother's death Nathaniel neurosis never night once Oxford Pedmore Piozzi pleasure prayer prays precepts Rambler Rasselas recall Salusbury Sam Johnson Sam's Samuel Johnson schoolfellow scolding scrofula seems Stourbridge suffered talk terrors Tetty Tetty's thing Thomas Warton thought Thrale Thraliana told Boswell took tormented troubled Walmesley Walmesley's wife young youth