The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order ; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons ; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published ; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Band 4J. Richardson, 1821 |
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... death as annihilating all that is great and pleasing in the world , as if actually contained in his mind , according to Berkeley's reverie . If his imagination be not sickly Young . and feeble , it " wings its distant way " 6 Ċ1777 ...
... death as annihilating all that is great and pleasing in the world , as if actually contained in his mind , according to Berkeley's reverie . If his imagination be not sickly Young . and feeble , it " wings its distant way " 6 Ċ1777 ...
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... death , is natural and common . We are apt to transfer to all around us our own gloom , without considering that at ... deaths and funerals happened , and have not families been in grief for their nearest relations ? But have those ...
... death , is natural and common . We are apt to transfer to all around us our own gloom , without considering that at ... deaths and funerals happened , and have not families been in grief for their nearest relations ? But have those ...
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... death . " He said , " Goldsmith was a plant that flowered late . There appeared nothing remarkable about him when he was young ; though when he had got high in fame , one of his friends began to recollect something of his being ...
... death . " He said , " Goldsmith was a plant that flowered late . There appeared nothing remarkable about him when he was young ; though when he had got high in fame , one of his friends began to recollect something of his being ...
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... Death : there is not much Life . " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said , they were . I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior , in his Preface to a collection of " Sacred Poems , " by various hands ...
... Death : there is not much Life . " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire : Johnson said , they were . I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior , in his Preface to a collection of " Sacred Poems , " by various hands ...
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... death . Sir , I would have gone to the world's end to relieve him . The remark about the dog , if made by me , was such a sally as might escape one when painting a man highly . " On Tuesday , September 23 , Johnson was remark- ably ...
... death . Sir , I would have gone to the world's end to relieve him . The remark about the dog , if made by me , was such a sally as might escape one when painting a man highly . " On Tuesday , September 23 , Johnson was remark- ably ...
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