The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... pain , No cold gradations of decay , Death broke at once the vital chain , And freed his soul the nearest way 3 " TO MRS . STRAHAN . 3. " " " 4th February , 1782 . “ Dear Madam , -Mrs . Williams showed me your kind letter . This little ...
... pain , No cold gradations of decay , Death broke at once the vital chain , And freed his soul the nearest way 3 " TO MRS . STRAHAN . 3. " " " 4th February , 1782 . “ Dear Madam , -Mrs . Williams showed me your kind letter . This little ...
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... want attendance ; my disorder has been rather tedious than violent ; rather irksome than painful . He needed not have made such a tragical representation . Pemb . MSS . Reyn . MSS . Letters , vol . ii . 1782. - ETAT . 73 . 25.
... want attendance ; my disorder has been rather tedious than violent ; rather irksome than painful . He needed not have made such a tragical representation . Pemb . MSS . Reyn . MSS . Letters , vol . ii . 1782. - ETAT . 73 . 25.
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... pain is short , and the conclusion speedy ; chronical disorders , by which we are suspended in tedious torture between life and death , are com- monly the effect of our own misconduct and intemperance . To die , & c . — This , sir , you ...
... pain is short , and the conclusion speedy ; chronical disorders , by which we are suspended in tedious torture between life and death , are com- monly the effect of our own misconduct and intemperance . To die , & c . — This , sir , you ...
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... pains to count his dice . Burke's talk is the ebullition of his mind . He does not talk from a desire of distinction , but because his mind is full 1 . " 199 2 He thus curiously characterised one of our old ac- quaintance : " ******** 2 ...
... pains to count his dice . Burke's talk is the ebullition of his mind . He does not talk from a desire of distinction , but because his mind is full 1 . " 199 2 He thus curiously characterised one of our old ac- quaintance : " ******** 2 ...
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... painful , and too just , may have deprived his works of so extensive , or , at least , so brilliant , a popularity as some of his contemporaries have attained ; but the Editor ventures to believe , that there is no poet of his times who ...
... painful , and too just , may have deprived his works of so extensive , or , at least , so brilliant , a popularity as some of his contemporaries have attained ; but the Editor ventures to believe , that there is no poet of his times who ...
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