...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion." He was full of these childish tricks. He would never, if he could help it, step on the cracks between...

...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, " I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture " to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion."! The remark may appear somewhat out of place, but, after the last quotation, I may be permitted to say,...

...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...his companion. Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed him to go a good way about, rather than cross a particular alley in Leicester-fields ; but this Sir Joshua...

...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement I have seen him go back again, put himself in a i proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. Some of Walton's illustrations are instructive here. For example, he cites the case of a man who leaves...

...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a A strange instance of something of this nature, even when on horseback, happened when he was in the...

...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. That the most minute singularities which belonged to him, and made very observable parts of his appearance...

...close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture ; for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. Some of Walton's illustrations are instructive here. For example, he cites the case of a man who leaves...

...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion" (1.484-85). When Johnson's self -absorption is controlled and momentary, as here, we move closer to...

...neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion." (Italics are added to facilitate comparison.) What a daffy image: Samuel Johnson, supersimian literatus,...

...wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper position to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it,...abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion. Superstitions There are similarities between superstitious ideas and some obsessions, and between superstitious...