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" as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call ; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - Page 339
by James Boswell - 1831
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 103

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 pages
...of human felicity. ' There,' he said, ' I experience an oblivion from care ; I dogx 2 matise matise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.' No one ministered to his colloquial cravings with the same zeal and skill as the inquisitive young...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events

Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 478 pages
...soon ' (said he), ' as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master...servants obsequious to my call, anxious to know and ready *o supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an...
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The rhetoric of conversation, ed. by S. Jenner

George Winfred Hervey - 1860 - 422 pages
...of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude ; when I am seated, 1 find the master courteous and the servants obsequious...to know and ready to supply my wants ; wine there exhilirates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with those...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...As soon,' said he, ' as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care and a freedom from solicitude. When I am seated, I find the master...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.' " 1 HAVE been lately reading one or two volumes of the " Rambler," who, excepting against some few...
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Meliora, Volumes 7-8

1865 - 792 pages
...me to free conversai ion, und an interchange of discourse with those whom I most lovo. I dogmntize, and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.' Had Johnson's wife lived, or had he been a father, ho would have probably formed another estimate of...
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 9

1873 - 914 pages
...that, as soon as he entered the door of a tavern, he experienced an oblivion from care and a freedom from solicitude : " When I am seated, I find the master...call, anxious to know and ready to supply my wants. To me, this exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to iue conversation and an interchange of discourse...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
..."As soon," said he, "as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care and a freedom from solicitude. When I am seated, I find the master...my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and as interchange of discourse with those whom I most love ; I dogmatize and am contradicted, and in this...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...solicitude. When I am seated, I und the master courteous, and the sen-ants obsequious to my call ; «niiom uld have stayed for ever in the church, satisfied with beholding him.' Npr Uxee whom I most love ; I dogmatize and am contndicUd, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...As soon (said he) as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." ' " Ibid. — Line 24 : On " inn " put the following note : — " 'We happened to lye this night at...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...As soon (said he) as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." ' " Ibid. — Line 24 : On " inn " put the following note : — " We happened to lye this night at...
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