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... MADAM , —Though I am afraid your illness leaves little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot forbear to pay you my congratulations on the new year ; and to declare my wishes that your years to come may be many and ...
... MADAM , —Though I am afraid your illness leaves little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot forbear to pay you my congratulations on the new year ; and to declare my wishes that your years to come may be many and ...
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... Madam , has said it as correctly as it could be . " Nor was it only in the dignitaries of the church that Johnson required a particular decorum and delicacy of be- haviour ; he justly considered that the clergy , as persons set apart ...
... Madam , has said it as correctly as it could be . " Nor was it only in the dignitaries of the church that Johnson required a particular decorum and delicacy of be- haviour ; he justly considered that the clergy , as persons set apart ...
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... Madam , what right have you to talk thus ? Both Mr. ***** and I have reason to take " " it ill . You may talk so of Mr. ***** ; but why do you make me do it ? Have I said anything against 42 1781 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... Madam , what right have you to talk thus ? Both Mr. ***** and I have reason to take " " it ill . You may talk so of Mr. ***** ; but why do you make me do it ? Have I said anything against 42 1781 . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... MADAM , " London , April 12 , 1781 . " Life is full of troubles . I have just lost my dear friend Thrale . I hope he is happy ; but I have had a great loss . I am otherwise pretty well . I require some care of my- self , but that care ...
... MADAM , " London , April 12 , 1781 . " Life is full of troubles . I have just lost my dear friend Thrale . I hope he is happy ; but I have had a great loss . I am otherwise pretty well . I require some care of my- self , but that care ...
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... Madam , we see that it is not to be the same body ; for the scripture uses the illustration of grain sown , and we know that the grain which grows is not the same with what is sown . You cannot suppose that we shall rise with a diseased ...
... Madam , we see that it is not to be the same body ; for the scripture uses the illustration of grain sown , and we know that the grain which grows is not the same with what is sown . You cannot suppose that we shall rise with a diseased ...
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Página 306 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 9 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Página 222 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Página 51 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 59 - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them to the purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humor, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination.