The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1Gabriel Wells, 1922 |
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... once form'd , all council comes too late , He flies to press , and hurries on his fate ; Swiftly he sees the imagin'd laurels spread , And feels the unfading wreath surround his head . Warn'd by another's fate , vain youth be wise ...
... once form'd , all council comes too late , He flies to press , and hurries on his fate ; Swiftly he sees the imagin'd laurels spread , And feels the unfading wreath surround his head . Warn'd by another's fate , vain youth be wise ...
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... once asked him whether a person , whose name I have now for- gotten , studied hard , he answered " No , Sir ; I do ... once observed to me that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at ...
... once asked him whether a person , whose name I have now for- gotten , studied hard , he answered " No , Sir ; I do ... once observed to me that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at ...
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... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation , and totally concentrated in one object ...
... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation , and totally concentrated in one object ...
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