Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 pages |
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Page 195
... happier seat , Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat . e f These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain , These goods he grants , who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind , And makes the happiness ...
... happier seat , Counts death kind Nature's signal for retreat . e f These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain , These goods he grants , who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial wisdom calms the mind , And makes the happiness ...
Page 368
... happiness , and , perhaps , the chief happiness which this world affords 3 : but , like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed , the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain ; and expectations improperly indulged , must end in ...
... happiness , and , perhaps , the chief happiness which this world affords 3 : but , like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed , the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain ; and expectations improperly indulged , must end in ...
Page 451
... happiest of human beings 2. I supported a different opinion , from which I have never yet varied , that a man is ... happiness I have never known , that time I have never regretted . ... The poet may gaily describe the short hours of ...
... happiest of human beings 2. I supported a different opinion , from which I have never yet varied , that a man is ... happiness I have never known , that time I have never regretted . ... The poet may gaily describe the short hours of ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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