The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volumen5J. Murray, 1831 |
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... seem not to be very clear in your own mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it ... seems , wished to dispose of her collection , and thought that Mrs. Thrale might purchase and pay for it by an ...
... seem not to be very clear in your own mind ; many are not sufficiently developed and expanded for the com- mon reader : it ... seems , wished to dispose of her collection , and thought that Mrs. Thrale might purchase and pay for it by an ...
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... seems fond of me . " " Lichfield , 20th October , 1781 . " I wrote from Oxford , where I staid two days . On Thursday I went to Birmingham , and was told by Hector that I should not be well so soon as I expected ; but that well I should ...
... seems fond of me . " " Lichfield , 20th October , 1781 . " I wrote from Oxford , where I staid two days . On Thursday I went to Birmingham , and was told by Hector that I should not be well so soon as I expected ; but that well I should ...
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... seems scarcely conceivable how such palpable impositions could have deceived the most ignorant , and yet there were numerous dupes in the critical and literary circles of the day . Mr. W. H. Ireland has since published a full and minute ...
... seems scarcely conceivable how such palpable impositions could have deceived the most ignorant , and yet there were numerous dupes in the critical and literary circles of the day . Mr. W. H. Ireland has since published a full and minute ...
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... seems to make no advances towards us . " Such is my health , which will , I hope , soon grow better . In other respects I have no reason to complain . I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of ...
... seems to make no advances towards us . " Such is my health , which will , I hope , soon grow better . In other respects I have no reason to complain . I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of ...
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... seems to have been written with a troubled mind . My mind has been for some time much disturbed . The peace of God be with me . 66 " I hope to - morrow to finish Lawrence , and to write to Mrs. Aston , and to Lucy . " 19. — I rose late ...
... seems to have been written with a troubled mind . My mind has been for some time much disturbed . The peace of God be with me . 66 " I hope to - morrow to finish Lawrence , and to write to Mrs. Aston , and to Lucy . " 19. — I rose late ...
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Página 177 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 19 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no...
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Página 431 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Página 18 - CONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
Página 249 - Mr. Windham has been here to see me ; he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half, perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature ; and there Windham is, inter Stellas* Luna minores.
Página 262 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known, teach me by thy Holy Spirit, to withdraw my mind from unprofitable and dangerous enquiries, from difficulties vainly curious, and doubts impossible to be solved.
Página 287 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Página 176 - But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?" JOHNSON. "A man may have such a degree of hope as to keep him quiet. You see I am not quiet, from the vehemence with which I talk; but I do not despair." MRS. ADAMS. " You seem, Sir, to forget the merits of our Redeemer.
Página 265 - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault.