The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 3National ilustrated library, 1859 |
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... happy to think that he lived to see the crown at last recover its just influence . At Leicester we read in the newspaper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old schoolfellow , and one with whom he had lived a good ...
... happy to think that he lived to see the crown at last recover its just influence . At Leicester we read in the newspaper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old schoolfellow , and one with whom he had lived a good ...
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... happy for the present but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving in a post - chaise ? " JOHNSON : " No , Sir ; you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . " Talking of melancholy , he said , " Some men ...
... happy for the present but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving in a post - chaise ? " JOHNSON : " No , Sir ; you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . " Talking of melancholy , he said , " Some men ...
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... happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality . " When the service was ended I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I thought Cheyne had been reckoned ...
... happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality . " When the service was ended I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I thought Cheyne had been reckoned ...
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... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not improved : he is only not sensible of his defects . " Sir Joshua said the Doctor was talking of the effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass ...
... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not improved : he is only not sensible of his defects . " Sir Joshua said the Doctor was talking of the effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass ...
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... happy for the present is so true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoyment to enjoyment . " " Though many men are nominally entrusted ...
... happy for the present is so true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoyment to enjoyment . " " Though many men are nominally entrusted ...
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