The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 69
... hope again in possession , with all her train of pleasures dancing about her . Even while I am preparing to write a history of disappointed expectations , I cannot forbear to flat- ter myself , that you and your readers are impatient ...
... hope again in possession , with all her train of pleasures dancing about her . Even while I am preparing to write a history of disappointed expectations , I cannot forbear to flat- ter myself , that you and your readers are impatient ...
Pagina 315
... hope , and had long endeavoured to deserve , squandered at last on nameless ignorance , was to thirst with water flowing before him , and to see the fruits , to which his hunger was hastening , scattered by the wind . Nor can my ...
... hope , and had long endeavoured to deserve , squandered at last on nameless ignorance , was to thirst with water flowing before him , and to see the fruits , to which his hunger was hastening , scattered by the wind . Nor can my ...
Pagina 335
... hope of confirming their esteem of themselves by the approbation of each other . But this spon- taneous fondness seldom rises at the sight of poverty , which every one regards with habitual con- tempt , and of which the applause is no ...
... hope of confirming their esteem of themselves by the approbation of each other . But this spon- taneous fondness seldom rises at the sight of poverty , which every one regards with habitual con- tempt , and of which the applause is no ...
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The dangers of imitation The impropriety of imitating Spenser | 56 |
A criticism on the English historians | 62 |
The young trader turned gentleman | 69 |
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