Samuel Johnson

Fiction & Literature, Classics
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Author: Leslie Stephens ISBN: 1230001586299
Publisher: Gbooks Publication: March 9, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Leslie Stephens
ISBN: 1230001586299
Publisher: Gbooks
Publication: March 9, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

that his father's bankruptcy made his stay difficult, and that the period must have been one of trial.

  The effect of the Oxford residence upon Johnson's mind was characteristic. The lad already suffered from the attacks of melancholy, which sometimes drove him to the borders of insanity. At Oxford, Law's Serious Call gave him the strong religious impressions which remained through life. But he does not seem to have been regarded as a gloomy or a religious youth by his contemporaries. When told in after years that he had been described as a "gay 

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that his father's bankruptcy made his stay difficult, and that the period must have been one of trial.

  The effect of the Oxford residence upon Johnson's mind was characteristic. The lad already suffered from the attacks of melancholy, which sometimes drove him to the borders of insanity. At Oxford, Law's Serious Call gave him the strong religious impressions which remained through life. But he does not seem to have been regarded as a gloomy or a religious youth by his contemporaries. When told in after years that he had been described as a "gay 

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