The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... seems now to approach , and I feel its benefit , which I hope will extend to dear Mrs. Aston . " When Dr. Falconer saw me , I was at home only by acci- dent , for I lived much with Mrs. Thrale , and had all the care from her that she ...
... seems now to approach , and I feel its benefit , which I hope will extend to dear Mrs. Aston . " When Dr. Falconer saw me , I was at home only by acci- dent , for I lived much with Mrs. Thrale , and had all the care from her that she ...
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... seems not born to be popular . " Your system of the mental fabrick is exceedingly obscure , and , without more attention than will be willingly bestowed , is unintelligible . The plans of Burnaby will be more safely understood , and are ...
... seems not born to be popular . " Your system of the mental fabrick is exceedingly obscure , and , without more attention than will be willingly bestowed , is unintelligible . The plans of Burnaby will be more safely understood , and are ...
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... seems to say , ought to resemble a well - ordered poem ; of which one rule generally received is , that the exordium should be simple , and The Rev. Mr. Temple , vicar of St. Gluvias , Cornwall . - BosWELL . should promise little ...
... seems to say , ought to resemble a well - ordered poem ; of which one rule generally received is , that the exordium should be simple , and The Rev. Mr. Temple , vicar of St. Gluvias , Cornwall . - BosWELL . should promise little ...
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... seems hardly worthy of all those principles of con- duct and maxims of prudence which one generation of men has transmitted to another ; but upon a closer view , when it is per- ceived how much evil is produced and how much good is im ...
... seems hardly worthy of all those principles of con- duct and maxims of prudence which one generation of men has transmitted to another ; but upon a closer view , when it is per- ceived how much evil is produced and how much good is im ...
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... seems to have been of a temper at once perverse and indolent , and to have dimmed and disgraced his talents by habits of intoxication . He complains , in a strain of self - satisfaction , that " when a man ( meaning himself ) thus ...
... seems to have been of a temper at once perverse and indolent , and to have dimmed and disgraced his talents by habits of intoxication . He complains , in a strain of self - satisfaction , that " when a man ( meaning himself ) thus ...
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