Johnson, Samuel(1709–1784)
Samuel Johnson, the English man of letters, poet, lexicographer, moralist, and humanist, was born in Lichfield, the son of an indigent bookseller. After his early edu...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell
James Boswell (1740-1795) was a young, funloving, aristocratic, would-be man-abouttown when he came to London from his native Scotland in 1762. He soon b...
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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu&ntild...
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Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu...
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In the following essay, Hagstrum analyzes the philosophical positions on the nature of fear and hope advanced by Samuel Johnson and William Blake.
In 1749 Samuel Johnson, often considered the last ...
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Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience, wrote Samuel Johnson, the famous 18th century English essayist. People show the same optimism today."Still, a little advance planning can help you...
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Table XII is on the ground floor of the Lombardy Hotel, which was once a house owned by the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. It’s one of the most opulent Beaux-Arts dining rooms in th...
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Table XII is on the ground floor of the Lombardy Hotel, which was once a house owned by the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. It’s one of the most opulent Beaux-Arts dining rooms in th...
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If my last venture in charity had been the Oil for Food program, which fleeced the starving in order to enrich Saddam Hussein, I would not have criticized America's first response to the tsunami. B...
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A few years ago, Joseph Epstein, author of the popular collection of essays Snobbery: The American Version (2002), began to notice that he wasn’t enjoying many of his friendships the way he o...
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was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin!
I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), ab...
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A few years ago, Joseph Epstein, author of the popular collection of essays Snobbery: The American Version (2002), began to notice that he wasn’t enjoying many of his friendships the way he ...
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was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin!
I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), a...
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Once upon a time, it would have meant something to have watched the Zidane head-butt in the World Cup final live on TV. I did see it. I missed the first 85 minutes or so of the match, then tuned in...
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Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784)
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
Jean H. Hagstrum
Money Moves For A Second Marriage
