Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... happy to think , that he lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived ...
... happy to think , that he lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had lived ...
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... happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise ? " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . " Talking of melancholy , he said ...
... happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise ? " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . " Talking of melancholy , he said ...
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... happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality . " When the service was ended , I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I thought Cheyne had been reckoned ...
... happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality . " When the service was ended , I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I thought Cheyne had been reckoned ...
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... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not improved he is only not sensible of his defects . " Sir Joshua said the Doctor was talking . of the effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass ...
... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is not improved he is only not sensible of his defects . " Sir Joshua said the Doctor was talking . of the effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass ...
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... happy for the present is so true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoy- ment to enjoyment . " " Though many men are nominally ...
... happy for the present is so true , that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while . Life is a progress from want to want , not from enjoy- ment to enjoyment . " " Though many men are nominally ...
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