Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... pleasure in it . Language is scanty , and inadequate to express the nice gradations and mixtures of our feelings . No man reads a book of science from pure inclination . The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions ...
... pleasure in it . Language is scanty , and inadequate to express the nice gradations and mixtures of our feelings . No man reads a book of science from pure inclination . The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions ...
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... pleasure in writing , particularly in writing verses . I allow you may have pleasure from writing , after it is over , you have written well ; but you don't go willingly to it again ' . I know when I have been writing verses , I have ...
... pleasure in writing , particularly in writing verses . I allow you may have pleasure from writing , after it is over , you have written well ; but you don't go willingly to it again ' . I know when I have been writing verses , I have ...
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... pleasure with which I can now tell you that about a week ago , I felt suddenly a sensible remission of my asthma , and consequently a greater lightness of action and motion . Of this grateful allevi- ation I know not the cause , nor ...
... pleasure with which I can now tell you that about a week ago , I felt suddenly a sensible remission of my asthma , and consequently a greater lightness of action and motion . Of this grateful allevi- ation I know not the cause , nor ...
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