The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Pafraets Book Company, 1903 |
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... performance on horseback 7 Scheme for news - writers + 8 Plan of military discipline + 9 Progress of idleness 10 Political credulity 11 Discourses on the weather 12 Marriages , why advertised 13 The imaginary housewife 76 80 84 88 92 96 ...
... performance on horseback 7 Scheme for news - writers + 8 Plan of military discipline + 9 Progress of idleness 10 Political credulity 11 Discourses on the weather 12 Marriages , why advertised 13 The imaginary housewife 76 80 84 88 92 96 ...
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... performance : novelty always captivates the mind ; as our thoughts rise fresh upon us , we readily be- lieve them just and original , which , when the pleas- ure of production is over , we find to be mean and common , or borrowed from ...
... performance : novelty always captivates the mind ; as our thoughts rise fresh upon us , we readily be- lieve them just and original , which , when the pleas- ure of production is over , we find to be mean and common , or borrowed from ...
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... performance happens not to fall in to the hands of some who have courage to tell , and authority to propagate their opinion , it often re- mains long in obscurity , and perishes unknown and unexamined . A few , a very few , commonly ...
... performance happens not to fall in to the hands of some who have courage to tell , and authority to propagate their opinion , it often re- mains long in obscurity , and perishes unknown and unexamined . A few , a very few , commonly ...
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NO PAGE 111 The pleasures and advantages of industry | 1 |
The itch of writing universal | 7 |
The folly of creating artificial wants | 14 |
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amusement art of memory Bassora censure common commonly considered critick curiosity danger delight desire diligence distress Ditto dread Drugget easily easy elegance endeavour enemies envy equal eral evil expected eyes favour fortune friends genius give gout gratified hands happiness honour hope Hudibras human idleness Idler Iliad imagination innu inquire JAMES BOSWELL kind knowledge labour lady learned less live look lost Louisbourg mankind marriage memory ment mind Minorca miscarriage misery morning nation nature necessary ness never night observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions perhaps Peterhouse pleased pleasure praise present publick reason resolved rich SAMUEL JOHNSON SATURDAY scarcely seldom Sir Joshua Reynolds sometimes soon Sophron suffered superaddition surely talk tell terrour thing thought tion told truth virtue weary wife wish wonder write