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Jonathan Swift
• Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist （讽刺作家）, essayist. • He is remembered for works such as Gulliver‘s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier’s Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose（散文） satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry.
• From the "cemetery Elegy" This poem, we can see the British Romantic poets to the new classical transition. On the one hand, Gray crafted poetic language, in line with neo-classical rhetoric of praise poetry demands on the other hand, the performance of his romantic poetry of nature and the harmonious relationship between people's desire. This combination to express a deeper sadness, so classicist eternal pursuit of the truth of the description, so that through the ages has always been beautiful poetry Tanwan structure together, but also has the power of touching.

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Johnson was the last great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.
在约翰逊时代，文化氛围已经在向浪漫主 方向发展，人们已不再视“三一律”为神
圣 与德莱登、伏尔泰相比，约翰逊是更为宽 的新古典主义者。
• He was conservative and eccentric, but he never lacked wit. These characteristics are well reflected in the following quotations:
I look upon it, that he who doesn’t mind his belly,
but undaunted man; a humanist who had
compassion for the poor; a relentless pursuer after truth and a solid scholar.
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for prose writing, often to an extreme. His choice of using too many ponderous phrases was criticized. However, he has a style of his own. His prose has an elegance that depends on balance, his phrases
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• After spending six months with his cousins, Johnson returned to Lichfield, but the headmaster was angered by the impertinence of this long absence, he refused to allow Samuel to continue at the grammar school. • • Johnson was enrolled into the King Edward VI grammar school at Stourbridge.
• After thirteen months, a shortage of funds forced Johnson to leave Oxford without a degree, and he returned to Lichfield. • He eventually did receive a degree. Just before the publication of his Dictionary in 1755, Oxford University awarded Johnson the degree of Master of Arts. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1765 by Trinity College Dublin and in 1775 by Oxford University.
• A year later, Johnson went to Lichfield Grammar School, where he excelled in Latin. • He excelled at his studies and was promoted to the upper school at the age of nine. • At the age of 16, Johnson was given the opportunity to stay with his cousins.There he became a close friend of Cornelius Ford, who employed his knowledge of the classics to tutor Johnson while he was not attending school.

英国作家批评家塞缪尔·约翰逊经典名言警句1. 未来是用现在换来的。

2. 失望虽然常常发生，但总没有绝望那么可怕。

3. 偷懒就会无聊，结果，由于别人希望忙碌而我们就失去了伙伴。

4. 我十分赞赏公共娱乐，因为娱乐可以防止人们去干不正经的事5. 旅游的作用就是用现实来约束想象：不是去想事情会是怎样的，而是去看它们实际上是怎样的。

6. 一个人在旅游时必须带上知识，如果他想带回知识的话。

7. Example is always more efficacious than precept.身教胜于言教。

8. Literature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like.9. 选择朋友要冷静，不可操之过急，断交更要慎重，能对你开怀直言的人，便是你的挚友。

10. 伟大的工作，并不是用力量而是用耐心去完成的。

11. 我们可能把幻想作为伴侣，但必须以理智作为我们指引。

12. 人生是短促的，这句话应该促醒每一个人去进行一切他所想做的事。

虽然勤勉不能保证一定成功，死亡可能摧折欣欣向荣的事业，但那些功业未遂的人，至少已有参加行伍的光荣，即使他未获胜，却也算战斗过。

13. 选择朋友要冷静，不可操之过急，断交更要慎重，能对你开怀直言的人，便是你的挚友。

14. 心地善良的人，富于幻想的人比冷酷残忍的人更容易聚合。

15. 重要的是如何生存，而不是如何死去。

塞缪尔·约翰逊(Samuel Johnson),英国作家，批评家。

（1709—1784）英国文学史上重要的诗人、散文家、传记家和健谈家，编纂的《词典》对英语发展作出了重大贡献。

和琼森一样，他也是当时文坛的一代盟主，他对文学小说诗歌文学作品的评论，即使片言只语，也被众口宣传，当作屑金碎玉。