The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... nature of which eludes the most minute inquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation I MEM PR 4778127.
... nature of which eludes the most minute inquiry , though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation I MEM PR 4778127.
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... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . It has been said , that he contracted this grievous malady from his nurse . His mother yielding to the superstitious notion , which it is wonderful to think , prevailed so ...
... nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . It has been said , that he contracted this grievous malady from his nurse . His mother yielding to the superstitious notion , which it is wonderful to think , prevailed so ...
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... nature of that distemper called St. Vitus's dance . Sir Joshua Reynolds , however , was of a different opinion , and favored me with the following paper : - " Those motions or tricks of Dr. Johnson are improperly called convulsions . He ...
... nature of that distemper called St. Vitus's dance . Sir Joshua Reynolds , however , was of a different opinion , and favored me with the following paper : - " Those motions or tricks of Dr. Johnson are improperly called convulsions . He ...
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... nature of the under- taking he acknowledges , and shows himself perfectly sensible of it in the conclusion of his " Plan ; " but he had a noble conscious- ness of his own abilities , which enabled him to go on with undaunted spirit . Dr ...
... nature of the under- taking he acknowledges , and shows himself perfectly sensible of it in the conclusion of his " Plan ; " but he had a noble conscious- ness of his own abilities , which enabled him to go on with undaunted spirit . Dr ...
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... nature , and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; " and Numbers 44 and 100 , by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter . 66 Posterity will be astonished when they are told , upon the authority of Johnson himself , that many of these ...
... nature , and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; " and Numbers 44 and 100 , by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter . 66 Posterity will be astonished when they are told , upon the authority of Johnson himself , that many of these ...
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