The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
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How small of all that human hearts endure , That part which kings or laws can cause or cure . Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the ...
How small of all that human hearts endure , That part which kings or laws can cause or cure . Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the ...
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as much perplexed by Luke as by Lydiat in The Vanity of Human Wishes . The truth is , that Goldsmith himself was in a mistake . In the Respublica Hungarica , there is an account of a desperate rebellion in the year 1514 , headed by two ...
as much perplexed by Luke as by Lydiat in The Vanity of Human Wishes . The truth is , that Goldsmith himself was in a mistake . In the Respublica Hungarica , there is an account of a desperate rebellion in the year 1514 , headed by two ...
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I remember I wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes in a day . Doctor , + ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not ÆTAT . 57. ] DR . JOHNSON . 11.
I remember I wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes in a day . Doctor , + ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not ÆTAT . 57. ] DR . JOHNSON . 11.
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity ; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others , no man can be good in the highest degree , who wishes ...
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity ; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others , no man can be good in the highest degree , who wishes ...
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... And babes cling frighted to the nurses ' breast . With looks convuls'd he roars in pompous strain , And , like an angry lion , shakes his mane . The nine , with terrour struck , who ne'er had seen Aught human with so terrible ...
... And babes cling frighted to the nurses ' breast . With looks convuls'd he roars in pompous strain , And , like an angry lion , shakes his mane . The nine , with terrour struck , who ne'er had seen Aught human with so terrible ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 2 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2018 |
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