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Pagina 92
... expected bursts of an earth- quake , yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant , as to agonize under the slightest disappointment . Broken rest , tasteless meals , and causeless anxieties shorten life and render it unfit for active em ...
... expected bursts of an earth- quake , yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant , as to agonize under the slightest disappointment . Broken rest , tasteless meals , and causeless anxieties shorten life and render it unfit for active em ...
Pagina 93
... expected to be forthwith helped into some snug by - path to fortune by one or other of Oliver's great friends . Charles was sadly disconcerted on learn- ing that , so far from being able to provide for others , his brother could ...
... expected to be forthwith helped into some snug by - path to fortune by one or other of Oliver's great friends . Charles was sadly disconcerted on learn- ing that , so far from being able to provide for others , his brother could ...
Pagina 117
... expected , so I have made an alteration in mine . I shall , the beginning of next month , send over two hundred and fifty books , * which are all that I fancy can be well sold among you , and I would have you make some distinction in ...
... expected , so I have made an alteration in mine . I shall , the beginning of next month , send over two hundred and fifty books , * which are all that I fancy can be well sold among you , and I would have you make some distinction in ...
Pagina 143
... Dr. Johnson , the great literary luminary of the day , was the crowning object of his aspiring and somewhat ludicrous ambition . He expected to meet him at a dinner to which he was invited at Davies the bookseller's , but.
... Dr. Johnson , the great literary luminary of the day , was the crowning object of his aspiring and somewhat ludicrous ambition . He expected to meet him at a dinner to which he was invited at Davies the bookseller's , but.
Pagina 152
... expected to find him a decent , well dressed , in short a remarkably decorous philosopher . Instead of which , down from his bedchamber about noon , came , as newly risen , a large uncouth figure , with a little dark wig which scarcely ...
... expected to find him a decent , well dressed , in short a remarkably decorous philosopher . Instead of which , down from his bedchamber about noon , came , as newly risen , a large uncouth figure , with a little dark wig which scarcely ...
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Pagina 288 - Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil.
Pagina 221 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Pagina 79 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
Pagina 134 - Ah, Sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Pagina 194 - By this time my curiosity began to abate, and my appetite to increase ; the company of fools may at first make us smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. I therefore pretended to recollect a prior engagement, and after having...
Pagina 189 - Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner; but no man alive has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin.
Pagina 167 - I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.