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" Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. "
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 21
by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pages
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Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin

Albert J. Rivero - History - 1997 - 324 pages
...frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why" 47 —takes aim not only at Jenyns but at mythology itself. If stories like these account for the state...
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The Chain of Being and the Cry of Nature

University of Chicago Press - Philosophy - 2003 - 314 pages
...frolick beings at the vicissitudes of an dgue, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way of procuring...
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Loving Dr. Johnson

Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 337 pages
...frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way of procuring...
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Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau

John Farrell - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 372 pages
...frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way of 28 As Lovejoy...
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The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint

Sandra Menssen, Thomas D. Sullivan - Philosophy - 2007 - 348 pages
...frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions. . . .8 Could the relevant difference...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. ...

1774 - 388 pages
...Ague, and good Sport it is to fee a Man tumble with an Epilepfy, and revive and tumble again, and aH this he knows not why. As they are wifer and more...exquifite Diverfions, for we have no way of procuring any Sport fo brifk and fo lafting ' C 3 - a* as the Paroxyfms of the Gout and Stone which undoubtedly...
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