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If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sen- sible of it ; where can I find one , in complimenting whom I ...
If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity , not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sen- sible of it ; where can I find one , in complimenting whom I ...
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This , how- ever , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though ma- lignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratifi- cations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend ...
This , how- ever , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though ma- lignity may sometimes be disappointed of its gratifi- cations . I am , My dear sir , Your much obliged friend ...
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lector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think this a degrading task ...
lector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think this a degrading task ...
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He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions : his only amusement was in winter , when he took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy bare- footed , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no very ...
He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions : his only amusement was in winter , when he took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy bare- footed , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no very ...
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... Around them pleasures wait , and joys for ever new . But cruel virgins meet severer fates ; Expell❜d and exil'd from the blissful seats , To dismal realms , and regions void of peace , Where furies ever howl , and serpents hiss .
... Around them pleasures wait , and joys for ever new . But cruel virgins meet severer fates ; Expell❜d and exil'd from the blissful seats , To dismal realms , and regions void of peace , Where furies ever howl , and serpents hiss .
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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