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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... natural and common . We are apt to transfer to all around us our own gloom , without considering that at any given point of time there is , perhaps , as much youth and gaiety in the world as at another . Before I came into this life ...
... natural and common . We are apt to transfer to all around us our own gloom , without considering that at any given point of time there is , perhaps , as much youth and gaiety in the world as at another . Before I came into this life ...
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... natural inclinations to eat , drink , and sleep in a strong degree . " Johnson advised me to - night not to refine in the education of my children . " Life ( said he ) will not bear refinement : you must do as other people do . " 1 This ...
... natural inclinations to eat , drink , and sleep in a strong degree . " Johnson advised me to - night not to refine in the education of my children . " Life ( said he ) will not bear refinement : you must do as other people do . " 1 This ...
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... natural romantick beauties of rock , wood , and water ; and that in my morn of life " I had appro- priated the finest descriptions in the ancient Classicks , to certain scenes there , which were thus associated in my mind . That when ...
... natural romantick beauties of rock , wood , and water ; and that in my morn of life " I had appro- priated the finest descriptions in the ancient Classicks , to certain scenes there , which were thus associated in my mind . That when ...
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... natural flavour , it was necessary to write it down without delay . To record his sayings , after some distance of time , was like preserving or pickling long - kept and faded fruits , or other vegetables , which , when in that state ...
... natural flavour , it was necessary to write it down without delay . To record his sayings , after some distance of time , was like preserving or pickling long - kept and faded fruits , or other vegetables , which , when in that state ...
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... natural curi- osity at Islam ; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock , not from immediate springs , but after having run for many miles under ground . Plott , in his " History of Staffordshire , ' gives an account of this ...
... natural curi- osity at Islam ; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock , not from immediate springs , but after having run for many miles under ground . Plott , in his " History of Staffordshire , ' gives an account of this ...
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