The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience , when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease , and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation , and wish to return to it ...
... remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience , when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease , and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation , and wish to return to it ...
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... remark of Beauclerk's almost warrants a marginal note in Wilkes ' copy of Boswell's " Johnson , " viz . , that he was shy , sly , and dry . " 66 2 A Captain Northall , who had travelled in Italy , had made some notes in a pocket- book ...
... remark of Beauclerk's almost warrants a marginal note in Wilkes ' copy of Boswell's " Johnson , " viz . , that he was shy , sly , and dry . " 66 2 A Captain Northall , who had travelled in Italy , had made some notes in a pocket- book ...
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... remarks from Leandro Alberti . Mr. Beauclerk said , " It was alleged that he had borrowed also from another Italian authour . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , all who go to look for what the Classicks have said of Italy must find the same ...
... remarks from Leandro Alberti . Mr. Beauclerk said , " It was alleged that he had borrowed also from another Italian authour . " JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , all who go to look for what the Classicks have said of Italy must find the same ...
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... remarks , and Bear ( " like a word in a catch , " as Beauclerk said , ) was repeatedly heard at intervals , which coming from him who , by those who did not know him , had been so often assimilated to that ferocious animal , while we ...
... remarks , and Bear ( " like a word in a catch , " as Beauclerk said , ) was repeatedly heard at intervals , which coming from him who , by those who did not know him , had been so often assimilated to that ferocious animal , while we ...
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... remark , " Man never is , but always to be blest . " He asserted , that the present was never a happy state to any human being ; but that , as every part of life , of which we are conscious , was at some point of time a period yet to ...
... remark , " Man never is , but always to be blest . " He asserted , that the present was never a happy state to any human being ; but that , as every part of life , of which we are conscious , was at some point of time a period yet to ...
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