Wit and Wisdom of Samuel JohnsonClarendon Press, 1888 - 323 pages |
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... lives . A few of his writings still hold their re likely to hold them , for it is not easy to believe I will ever come when the world will be wholly o London and The Vanity of Human Wishes , or e Lives of the Poets to sink into neglect ...
... lives . A few of his writings still hold their re likely to hold them , for it is not easy to believe I will ever come when the world will be wholly o London and The Vanity of Human Wishes , or e Lives of the Poets to sink into neglect ...
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... Life of Johnson , iii . 19 . varice : e last passion of those lives of een squandered in pleasure , and ition . He that sinks under the ills bic are with the milder huni oothes the pride of one will offend the ut to Rambler, No. 77. ...
... Life of Johnson , iii . 19 . varice : e last passion of those lives of een squandered in pleasure , and ition . He that sinks under the ills bic are with the milder huni oothes the pride of one will offend the ut to Rambler, No. 77. ...
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... lives can only The is growing eve ever . What is k when it might icate features of aracter , and the m terated : and it , and folly , how ton , should be sil merriment and uns empt him to conceal , if not to ho think.
... lives can only The is growing eve ever . What is k when it might icate features of aracter , and the m terated : and it , and folly , how ton , should be sil merriment and uns empt him to conceal , if not to ho think.
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... 2 came out Lord Bolingbroke's works , published by Mr. David Mallet . The wild and pernicious ravings under the name of " Philosophy , " which 1 The Lives of the Poets . 2 1754 . were ard , because he had not reso- but left half.
... 2 came out Lord Bolingbroke's works , published by Mr. David Mallet . The wild and pernicious ravings under the name of " Philosophy , " which 1 The Lives of the Poets . 2 1754 . were ard , because he had not reso- but left half.
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... live more SWELL . Perhaps , Sir , I should be the ng in Parliament . I never would sell my 1 be vexed if things went wrong . ' JOHN- t , Sir . It would not vex you more in the he gallery : public affairs vex no man . ' : not they vexed ...
... live more SWELL . Perhaps , Sir , I should be the ng in Parliament . I never would sell my 1 be vexed if things went wrong . ' JOHN- t , Sir . It would not vex you more in the he gallery : public affairs vex no man . ' : not they vexed ...
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