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Pagina 74
When I am musing alone , ' wrote Johnson to Taylor in 1756 , ' I feel a pang for every moment that any human being has by my peevishness or obstinacy spent in uneasiness . ' And Fanny Burney notes his saying , ' I am always sorry when I ...
When I am musing alone , ' wrote Johnson to Taylor in 1756 , ' I feel a pang for every moment that any human being has by my peevishness or obstinacy spent in uneasiness . ' And Fanny Burney notes his saying , ' I am always sorry when I ...
Pagina 75
Besides , greatly as he had succeeded , he could feel that he ought by rights to have succeeded still more . Poverty had cramped and curtailed his Oxford career ; he had seen his intellectual inferiors rise to rank and fame above him ...
Besides , greatly as he had succeeded , he could feel that he ought by rights to have succeeded still more . Poverty had cramped and curtailed his Oxford career ; he had seen his intellectual inferiors rise to rank and fame above him ...
Pagina 89
There is the hypocrisy that simulates what it wishes others to believe it thinks or feels ; from this Johnson was finely free . ... that it thinks or feels what it wishes to think or feel ; here too Johnson was usually above reproach .
There is the hypocrisy that simulates what it wishes others to believe it thinks or feels ; from this Johnson was finely free . ... that it thinks or feels what it wishes to think or feel ; here too Johnson was usually above reproach .
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