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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 ...
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The peculiarity of Pepys and Boswell is that they seem to feel far less than most men the presence of another , critical ... Cf. the remark in his journal : ' I have a kind of strange feeling as if I wished nothing to be secret that ...
The peculiarity of Pepys and Boswell is that they seem to feel far less than most men the presence of another , critical ... Cf. the remark in his journal : ' I have a kind of strange feeling as if I wished nothing to be secret that ...
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