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"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." – Samuel Johnson. Also referenced in the song is a lyric derived from the final words spoken about Dr. Gonzo at the end of the film adaptation. The lyric is used at the end of the second breakdown of the song, as the final lyric of the song. "There he goes.
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
In his biography of Johnson, Kai Kin Yung suggests the portrait was intended to be a joke, and then states that "Reynolds's painting triumphantly transformed his friend's defect into an engaging study." [10]: 112 In Dr Johnson's Heart, Daniel Cook says that the artwork is the "best-known" portrait of Johnson. [17]
In particular, John Wain emphasizes Tyers's description of Johnson as "like a ghost. He never speaks unless he is spoken to", [10] which Wain considered a "bon mot". [11] Likwise, Walter Jackson Bate relies on how Tyers was able to partly capture Johnson's "bisociative" ability to bring "together two different frames of experience". [12]
Harold Bloom hailed Nokes's account of Johnson's life as significant for capturing "the critic as a Londoner, almost the archetypal citizen of that endless city." [6] Jacob Appel praised the book for its "ability to convey the degree to which the intellectual life of eighteenth-century London arose from the overlapping and entangled lives of its participants."
"We all feel he could make a big difference," said Moyes of the striker who scored four goals in 11 England appearances during 2020-21. "Get his goalscoring boots back on and be a big help to ...
Newly elected Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La, is sworn in after being elected to the speakership on Oct. 25, 2023. Johnson was the fourth candidate nominated by the GOP for the role ...
He emerges boggle-eyed from the Tardis in present-day London at the start of this enjoyably light-weight and wholesomely hokey helping of Who. Davies would never say so out loud.