The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... less frequent . " We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland . MISS REYNOLDS : " Have you seen them , Sir ? " JOHNSON : " No , Madam , I have seen a translation from Horace , by one of her daughters . She shewed it me . " MISS REY- NOLDS ...
... less frequent . " We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland . MISS REYNOLDS : " Have you seen them , Sir ? " JOHNSON : " No , Madam , I have seen a translation from Horace , by one of her daughters . She shewed it me . " MISS REY- NOLDS ...
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... less pleasing to others.1 Wine gives a man nothing . It neither gives him knowledge nor wit ; it only animates a man , and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed . It only puts in motion what has been locked ...
... less pleasing to others.1 Wine gives a man nothing . It neither gives him knowledge nor wit ; it only animates a man , and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed . It only puts in motion what has been locked ...
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... less hurt to be sober , than it would do me to get drunk . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir : and from what I have heard of him , one would not wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have some- body to drink with him , he ...
... less hurt to be sober , than it would do me to get drunk . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir : and from what I have heard of him , one would not wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have some- body to drink with him , he ...
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... less talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this super- fetation , this teeming of the press in ...
... less talked of than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this super- fetation , this teeming of the press in ...
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... less firm at one time than another ; but I think , a man's being in a good or bad humour depends upon his will . " - I , however , could not help thinking that a man's humour is often uncontrollable by his will . Johnson harangued ...
... less firm at one time than another ; but I think , a man's being in a good or bad humour depends upon his will . " - I , however , could not help thinking that a man's humour is often uncontrollable by his will . Johnson harangued ...
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