Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776-1780; v.4, 1780-1784)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... nature of the human mind , that it always takes hold of every mind that ap- proaches it ; and as it is wonderfully fortified and corroborated by an unanimity of sentiments , so is it shocked and disturbed by any con- trariety ...
... nature of the human mind , that it always takes hold of every mind that ap- proaches it ; and as it is wonderfully fortified and corroborated by an unanimity of sentiments , so is it shocked and disturbed by any con- trariety ...
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... Nature , in which that cele- brated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the pub- lication of which ...
... Nature , in which that cele- brated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the pub- lication of which ...
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... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " [ The quotation is from Johnson's Works , ix . 116. ] This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is ...
... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " [ The quotation is from Johnson's Works , ix . 116. ] This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is ...
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... natural , that , though it will perhaps not be said of him as he says of himself , that he is " a man not easily jealous , " yet we cannot but pity him , when at last we find him " perplexed in the extreme . " ' Johnson's Works , v ...
... natural , that , though it will perhaps not be said of him as he says of himself , that he is " a man not easily jealous , " yet we cannot but pity him , when at last we find him " perplexed in the extreme . " ' Johnson's Works , v ...
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... prehensive and miscellaneous that he may accommodate himself with a topick from every scene of life , or view of nature , it is no great aggra- vation of his task to be obliged to He Aetat , 67. ] Cumberland's ODES . 43 He said.
... prehensive and miscellaneous that he may accommodate himself with a topick from every scene of life , or view of nature , it is no great aggra- vation of his task to be obliged to He Aetat , 67. ] Cumberland's ODES . 43 He said.
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