Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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... happy revolutions . They have hurt our constitution , and will hurt it , till we mend it by another HAPPY REVO- LUTION . " - I never before discovered that my friend Goldsmith had so much of the old prejudice in him . General Paoli ...
... happy revolutions . They have hurt our constitution , and will hurt it , till we mend it by another HAPPY REVO- LUTION . " - I never before discovered that my friend Goldsmith had so much of the old prejudice in him . General Paoli ...
Page 283
... happy if they miss their counterparts . " JOHNSON : " To be sure not , Sir . I believe marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of the ...
... happy if they miss their counterparts . " JOHNSON : " To be sure not , Sir . I believe marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of the ...
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... happy . " - " Nay , Sir ( said Johnson , ) all this excludes but one evil - poverty . " * delicate art with which a man fashioned clay into a. good solemn poetry , as also the first three | lines of the second . Its last line is an ex ...
... happy . " - " Nay , Sir ( said Johnson , ) all this excludes but one evil - poverty . " * delicate art with which a man fashioned clay into a. good solemn poetry , as also the first three | lines of the second . Its last line is an ex ...
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