The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols, 1816 |
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... deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . VOL , V. C Money has much less power than is ascribed to it No 73 . 17 THE RAMBLER .
... deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . VOL , V. C Money has much less power than is ascribed to it No 73 . 17 THE RAMBLER .
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... fancy , and converses with none but such as he hires to lull him on the down of absolute authority , to sooth him with obsequiousness , and regale him with flattery , soon grows too slothful for the labour of contest , too tender for ...
... fancy , and converses with none but such as he hires to lull him on the down of absolute authority , to sooth him with obsequiousness , and regale him with flattery , soon grows too slothful for the labour of contest , too tender for ...
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... fancy ; and was told that every action was grace , and that every accent was persuasion . In this manner my life passed like a continual triumph amidst acclamations , and envy , and court- ship , and caresses : to please Melissa was the ...
... fancy ; and was told that every action was grace , and that every accent was persuasion . In this manner my life passed like a continual triumph amidst acclamations , and envy , and court- ship , and caresses : to please Melissa was the ...
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... fancy leads . HOR . ELPHINSTON , IT is easy for every man , whatever be his charac- ter with others , to find reasons for esteeming himself , and therefore censure , contempt , or con- viction of crimes , seldom deprive him of his own ...
... fancy leads . HOR . ELPHINSTON , IT is easy for every man , whatever be his charac- ter with others , to find reasons for esteeming himself , and therefore censure , contempt , or con- viction of crimes , seldom deprive him of his own ...
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... fancy , and ransacks`- his memory , only that he may leave the world less virtuous than he found it ; that he may intercept the hopes of the rising generation ; and spread snares for the soul with more dexterity ? What were their ...
... fancy , and ransacks`- his memory , only that he may leave the world less virtuous than he found it ; that he may intercept the hopes of the rising generation ; and spread snares for the soul with more dexterity ? What were their ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty CAPRICE celebrated censure common considered contempt critick curiosity Dagon danger delight Demochares desire dignity diligence discover domestick elegance endeavoured envy equally excellence expected expence extempo eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear February 19 flattered folly fortune frequently genius gisms gratifications happiness harmony heart Homer honour hope hopes and fears hour human idleness imagination inclined innu January 26 JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look mankind March 19 ment Milton mind miscarriages nature necessary negligence ness never NUMB numbers observed once opinion OVID passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts pride publick RAMBLER reason regard reproach ruentes SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sometimes soon sophisms sound species spect suffer surely syllables thing thou thought tion truth TUESDAY vanity verse Virgil virtue writer
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