Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
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... never happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise3 ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' ' Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale ...
... never happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise3 ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' ' Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale ...
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... never long without a dawn of ease . But they who restrain themselves from receiving comfort do as the savages would have done , had they put out their eyes when it was dark . ' Rasselas , ch . 35. ' Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson ...
... never long without a dawn of ease . But they who restrain themselves from receiving comfort do as the savages would have done , had they put out their eyes when it was dark . ' Rasselas , ch . 35. ' Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson ...
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... never got a farthing by anything I writ , except one about eight years ago , and that was by Mr. Pope's prudent management for me . ' Works , xix . 171. It was , I conjecture , Gulliver's Travels . Hume , in 1757 , wrote : -'I am ...
... never got a farthing by anything I writ , except one about eight years ago , and that was by Mr. Pope's prudent management for me . ' Works , xix . 171. It was , I conjecture , Gulliver's Travels . Hume , in 1757 , wrote : -'I am ...
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... never fails to shew me , that he has good reasons for it . ' Į have heard Johnson pay his Lordship this high compliment : ' I never was in Lord Elibank's company without learning something ' . ' We sat together till it was too late for ...
... never fails to shew me , that he has good reasons for it . ' Į have heard Johnson pay his Lordship this high compliment : ' I never was in Lord Elibank's company without learning something ' . ' We sat together till it was too late for ...
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