Topic: Sam R. Johnson
By Robert Fulford. . Barbra Streisand based a career on a single principle: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. She never sang a song; she...
Getty. China doesn't share western sensibilities about animal treatment. . To the capacious mind of Samuel Johnson, China — along with Peru...
Debtor's prisons were abolished in the United States in 1833. Until that time, failure to pay what you owed could and did land you in jail. And...
That most quintessential of Londoners Dr. Samuel Johnson has become the capital's favourite adopted son. He is the most quoted person in the...
In the Western world, biographical literature can be said to begin in the 5th century bce with the poet Ion of Chios, who wrote brief sketches of such famous contemporaries as Pericles and Sophocles. Also the author of an autobiography, Roger North ...
Aspects of the topic imitation are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References Johnson (in Samuel Johnson (English author): London is an "imitation" of the Roman satirist Juvenal's third satire.
Some writers write to share the love in their hearts, others to share the anger and disdain. Someone who feels driven to write may not even remember why, may never realize it was Miss Cunningham's remarks to his second-grade self that ...
Quotes, whether realized or not, are a way to keep our heritage intact. Just mentioning the names of Thomas Payne or Charles Dickens or C.S. Lewis or Benjamin Franklin or Edna Ferber or Margaret Mitchell would bring not only quotes, but ...
JOYCE'S ULYSSES (1918)
One of the greatest works of 20th century literature was James Joyce's Ulysses (the Latinised form of the Greek Odysseus), a modern re-telling of the ancient Greek epic. Here is another physical journey, in the form of ...
Jane Austen (1775-1870) is renowned for her ?moral sensibility? (Shields 6,8). Jane Austen shows her character?s pursuing happiness; the process is the essence of her novels. Isabelle Bohr argues that JA was either influenced directly by the writings of John ...