The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for ...
... pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for ...
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... pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though mo- tives are secret . Cowley certainly retired ...
... pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though mo- tives are secret . Cowley certainly retired ...
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... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch- house * in Chertsey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and King Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch- house * in Chertsey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and King Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
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... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
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... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
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