The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Band 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience , when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease , and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation , and wish to ...
... common remark on the unhappiness which men who have led a busy life experience , when they retire in expectation of enjoying themselves at ease , and that they generally languish for want of their habitual occupation , and wish to ...
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... common life , yet had not sufficient for the dignity of literature , was that he de- fied anyone to produce a classical book written in Scotland since Buchanan . Robertson , he said , used pretty words , but he liked Hume better , and ...
... common life , yet had not sufficient for the dignity of literature , was that he de- fied anyone to produce a classical book written in Scotland since Buchanan . Robertson , he said , used pretty words , but he liked Hume better , and ...
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... common with those who wrote before you ? ' ' Yes , Sir , ' says Johnson , I have the words , but my business was not to make words , but to explain them . ' Talking of Garrick and Barry , he said he always abused Garrick himself , but ...
... common with those who wrote before you ? ' ' Yes , Sir , ' says Johnson , I have the words , but my business was not to make words , but to explain them . ' Talking of Garrick and Barry , he said he always abused Garrick himself , but ...
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... common remark , that " as there is no necessity for our having poetry at all , it being merely a luxury , an instrument of pleasure , it can have no value , unless when exquisite in its kind . " I declared myself not satisfied . " Why ...
... common remark , that " as there is no necessity for our having poetry at all , it being merely a luxury , an instrument of pleasure , it can have no value , unless when exquisite in its kind . " I declared myself not satisfied . " Why ...
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... common - place complaints , that by the increase of taxes , labour would be dear , other nations would undersell us , and our commerce would be ruined . JOHNSON , ( smiling ) . " Never fear , Sir . Our commerce is in a very good state ...
... common - place complaints , that by the increase of taxes , labour would be dear , other nations would undersell us , and our commerce would be ruined . JOHNSON , ( smiling ) . " Never fear , Sir . Our commerce is in a very good state ...
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