The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... human hearts endure , That part which kings or laws can cause or cure . Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the smooth current of ...
... human hearts endure , That part which kings or laws can cause or cure . Still to ourselves in every place consign'd , Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the smooth current of ...
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James Boswell. as much perplexed by Luke as by Lydiat in The Vanity of Human Wishes . The truth is , that Goldsmith himself was in a mistake . In the Respublica Hungarica , there is an account of a desperate rebellion in the year 1514 ...
James Boswell. as much perplexed by Luke as by Lydiat in The Vanity of Human Wishes . The truth is , that Goldsmith himself was in a mistake . In the Respublica Hungarica , there is an account of a desperate rebellion in the year 1514 ...
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... , have written only half lines . I have written a hun- dred lines in a day . I remember I wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes in a day . Doctor , ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not quite ÆTAT . 57. ] 11 DR . JOHNSON .
... , have written only half lines . I have written a hun- dred lines in a day . I remember I wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of Human Wishes in a day . Doctor , ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not quite ÆTAT . 57. ] 11 DR . JOHNSON .
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... humanity ; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others , no man can be good in the highest degree , who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good . To omit for a year , or for a day , the most ...
... humanity ; and as no man is good but as he wishes the good of others , no man can be good in the highest degree , who wishes not to others the largest measures of the greatest good . To omit for a year , or for a day , the most ...
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... human with so terrible a mien , Debating whether they should stay or run , Virtue steps forth , and claims him for her son . With gentle speech she warns him now to yield , Nor stain his glories in the doubtful field ; But wrapt in ...
... human with so terrible a mien , Debating whether they should stay or run , Virtue steps forth , and claims him for her son . With gentle speech she warns him now to yield , Nor stain his glories in the doubtful field ; But wrapt in ...
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