Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen1J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... effect of the dreary void , when there is a total silence in a company for any length of time ; or , which is as bad , or perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up by a perpetual effort ? He related , that he had ...
... effect of the dreary void , when there is a total silence in a company for any length of time ; or , which is as bad , or perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up by a perpetual effort ? He related , that he had ...
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... effect in every thing else as well as in painting . " 2 Mr. Berrenger visited Johnson one day , and they talked of an evening society for conversation at a house in town , of which ( says Mr. B. ) we were all members , but of which ...
... effect in every thing else as well as in painting . " 2 Mr. Berrenger visited Johnson one day , and they talked of an evening society for conversation at a house in town , of which ( says Mr. B. ) we were all members , but of which ...
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... effect by various means ; he has a cheerful countenance , and a gay voice . Be- sides , his trade is wit . It would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment , as for a highwayman to take the road without his pis- tols ...
... effect by various means ; he has a cheerful countenance , and a gay voice . Be- sides , his trade is wit . It would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment , as for a highwayman to take the road without his pis- tols ...
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... effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass enlivened the mind , by giving a proper circulation to the blood . ( said he ) in very good spirits when I get up in the morning . By dinner - time I am exhausted ; wine puts me in ...
... effects of excess in wine ; but that a moderate glass enlivened the mind , by giving a proper circulation to the blood . ( said he ) in very good spirits when I get up in the morning . By dinner - time I am exhausted ; wine puts me in ...
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... effects of drink- ing in general ; and let it be considered , that there is no position , however false in its universa- lity , which is not true of some particular man . " --Sir William Forbes said , 66 Might not a man warmed with wine ...
... effects of drink- ing in general ; and let it be considered , that there is no position , however false in its universa- lity , which is not true of some particular man . " --Sir William Forbes said , 66 Might not a man warmed with wine ...
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