Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel JohnsonNew York, 1961 - 447 pages |
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Page 384
... present adventures would appear to me at a future period . I have often experienced , that scenes through which a man has passed , improve by lying in the memory : they grow mellow . Acti labores sunt jucundi . This may be owing to ...
... present adventures would appear to me at a future period . I have often experienced , that scenes through which a man has passed , improve by lying in the memory : they grow mellow . Acti labores sunt jucundi . This may be owing to ...
Page 385
... present ; if they have not faded to dimness in the memory . Perhaps , there is so much evil in every human enjoyment , when present , -so much dross mixed with it , that it requires to be refined by time ; and yet I do not see why time ...
... present ; if they have not faded to dimness in the memory . Perhaps , there is so much evil in every human enjoyment , when present , -so much dross mixed with it , that it requires to be refined by time ; and yet I do not see why time ...
Page 438
... present , if I had not seen Doctor Johnson's " Journey to the Western Isles , " in which he has been pleased to make a very friendly mention of my family , for which I am surely obliged to him , as being more than an equivalent for the ...
... present , if I had not seen Doctor Johnson's " Journey to the Western Isles , " in which he has been pleased to make a very friendly mention of my family , for which I am surely obliged to him , as being more than an equivalent for the ...
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Dr Johnson on horseback A Highland hut Fort Augustus | 25 |
Anoch Emigration Goldsmith Poets and soldiers com | 32 |
Dr Johnson relents Isle of Sky Armidale 253 43 | 43 |
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