Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 pages |
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... feel for our own . purpose " . Who ' eats a slice of ise a friend is hanged ? ' We are se who lay claim to this excess nd these very feeling people are good . They pay you by feeling ' . ' inexcusable lies and consecrated some great ...
... feel for our own . purpose " . Who ' eats a slice of ise a friend is hanged ? ' We are se who lay claim to this excess nd these very feeling people are good . They pay you by feeling ' . ' inexcusable lies and consecrated some great ...
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... feel pain seldom is ' no croaker , no declaimer against complains of the world . ' It is not , ' ii . 440 . 3 Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 106 . iii . 136 n . 2 . iii . 136 n . 2 . iv . 352 . 5 lb. ii . 169 . 8 The Idler , No. 72 . 10 Ib ...
... feel pain seldom is ' no croaker , no declaimer against complains of the world . ' It is not , ' ii . 440 . 3 Piozzi's Anecdotes , p . 106 . iii . 136 n . 2 . iii . 136 n . 2 . iv . 352 . 5 lb. ii . 169 . 8 The Idler , No. 72 . 10 Ib ...
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... feel myself ' walking upon ashes under which the fire is not extinguished , ' and coming to the time of which it will be proper rather to say ' nothing that is false than all that is true . ' Works , vii . 444 . I HAVE often thought ...
... feel myself ' walking upon ashes under which the fire is not extinguished , ' and coming to the time of which it will be proper rather to say ' nothing that is false than all that is true . ' Works , vii . 444 . I HAVE often thought ...
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... has se who do not feel them will not Rambler , No. 128 . -icatures : ation of the Lives of the Poets that o dine with Sir Joshua Reynolds . Johnson was not at all surly on the irning to I is a melancholy thing to be ...
... has se who do not feel them will not Rambler , No. 128 . -icatures : ation of the Lives of the Poets that o dine with Sir Joshua Reynolds . Johnson was not at all surly on the irning to I is a melancholy thing to be ...
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... feel ; pleasures which he cannot les of expressing every sensation which . ind . That frolic which shakes one man convulse another with indignation ; the which in one place obtains treats and n another be heard with indifference ...
... feel ; pleasures which he cannot les of expressing every sensation which . ind . That frolic which shakes one man convulse another with indignation ; the which in one place obtains treats and n another be heard with indifference ...
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