The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1934 |
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... opinion , from which I have never yet varied , that a man is happier and I enlarged upon the anxiety and sufferings which are endured at school . JOHNSON . " Ah ! Sir , a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss ...
... opinion , from which I have never yet varied , that a man is happier and I enlarged upon the anxiety and sufferings which are endured at school . JOHNSON . " Ah ! Sir , a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss ...
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... opinion that it was not lawful . " He spoke this with great emotion , and with that generous warmth which dictated the lines in his " London , " against Spanish encroachment . I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a poor ...
... opinion that it was not lawful . " He spoke this with great emotion , and with that generous warmth which dictated the lines in his " London , " against Spanish encroachment . I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a poor ...
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... opinion , that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson , and that his dial - plates are brighter . Fielding's characters , though they do not expand themselves so widely in dissertation ...
... opinion , that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson , and that his dial - plates are brighter . Fielding's characters , though they do not expand themselves so widely in dissertation ...
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