The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 99
... period of intense depression . At the end of his preface to it , in an outburst of unaccustomed self - pity , he had written , ' I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection , which if I could obtain in this gloom of ...
... period of intense depression . At the end of his preface to it , in an outburst of unaccustomed self - pity , he had written , ' I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection , which if I could obtain in this gloom of ...
Page 253
... period with a pompous accent , and reading it with a whine , or with a kind of spasmodic struggle for utterance ; and this , not from any natural infirmity , but from a strange singularity , in reading on , in one breath , as if he had ...
... period with a pompous accent , and reading it with a whine , or with a kind of spasmodic struggle for utterance ; and this , not from any natural infirmity , but from a strange singularity , in reading on , in one breath , as if he had ...
Page 264
... period of his life , received , as well as a long lecture ' on the course of his education and other particulars ' , half a guinea ; and he believed , from the appearance of the room and its occupant , that his benefactor had probably ...
... period of his life , received , as well as a long lecture ' on the course of his education and other particulars ' , half a guinea ; and he believed , from the appearance of the room and its occupant , that his benefactor had probably ...
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