Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... Common Soldiers was added to it when published in Volumes . acknowl . 1759. Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia , a Tale . acknowl . Advertisement for the Proprietors of the Idler against certain Persons who pirated those Papers as they came ...
... Common Soldiers was added to it when published in Volumes . acknowl . 1759. Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia , a Tale . acknowl . Advertisement for the Proprietors of the Idler against certain Persons who pirated those Papers as they came ...
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... common sports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , ' how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . ' Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
... common sports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , ' how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . ' Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
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... common thought ; ' that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politicks ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : ' but the ver- sification was truly ...
... common thought ; ' that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politicks ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : ' but the ver- sification was truly ...
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... common effect of low spirits or melancholy , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually suffering those evils which happen to be most strongly pre- sented to their minds . Some have fancied themselves to be ...
... common effect of low spirits or melancholy , to make those who are afflicted with it imagine that they are actually suffering those evils which happen to be most strongly pre- sented to their minds . Some have fancied themselves to be ...
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... common friend . But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations , and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure . ' In these families he passed much time in ...
... common friend . But what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations , and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure . ' In these families he passed much time in ...
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