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... entertainment . Again I exerted my powers of sentiment and expression , and again found every eye sparkling with delight , and every tongue silent with at tention . I now became familiar at the table of Aurantius , but could never , in ...
... entertainment . Again I exerted my powers of sentiment and expression , and again found every eye sparkling with delight , and every tongue silent with at tention . I now became familiar at the table of Aurantius , but could never , in ...
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Samuel Johnson. lar manner of life as to be unqualified for new studies cr entertainments . I now quitted my profession , and to set myself at once free from all importunities to resume it , changed my re- sidence , and devoted the ...
Samuel Johnson. lar manner of life as to be unqualified for new studies cr entertainments . I now quitted my profession , and to set myself at once free from all importunities to resume it , changed my re- sidence , and devoted the ...
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... entertainment . Such we have often seen rising in the morning to cards , and retiring in the afternoon to doze , whose happiness was celebrated by their neighbours , because they happened to grow rich by parsimony , and to be kept quiet ...
... entertainment . Such we have often seen rising in the morning to cards , and retiring in the afternoon to doze , whose happiness was celebrated by their neighbours , because they happened to grow rich by parsimony , and to be kept quiet ...
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... vanity ; and the harmless collegiate , who perhaps intended entertainment and instruction , or at worst only spoke without sufficient reflection upon the character of his hearers , is censured as arrogant or 90 [ No. 173 . THE RAMBLER .
... vanity ; and the harmless collegiate , who perhaps intended entertainment and instruction , or at worst only spoke without sufficient reflection upon the character of his hearers , is censured as arrogant or 90 [ No. 173 . THE RAMBLER .
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... entertainment , but , what never fails to excite very keen resentment , an insolent assertion of superiority , and a tri- umph over less enlightened understandings . The pedant is , therefore , not only heard with weariness , but malig ...
... entertainment , but , what never fails to excite very keen resentment , an insolent assertion of superiority , and a tri- umph over less enlightened understandings . The pedant is , therefore , not only heard with weariness , but malig ...
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Abouzaid acquaintance Æneid Ajut Altilia amusement Anningait ardour attention Attic dialect beauty Bias of Priene character Chartophylax Chrysippus cold band conduct consider contempt conversation danger DECEMBER 28 delight desire dignity diligence discover elegance endeavour entertainment envy escape excellence expected extempo eyes families the land fancy fashionable songs favour favourite fear felicity flattered folly force fortune frequently friends gain gratification Greenland Hafgufa happiness haste heard heart honour hope hour human ignorance imagination inclined indulgence knowledge labour ladies learning lence Leviculus lived lover mankind ment merit mind miscarriage misery Morad nature neglect negligence ness never NOVEMBER 19 numbers observed obtain opinion passion perpetual pleasure portunity poverty praise present pride RAMBLER reason received regard reputation resolved riches SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments solicited sometimes soon suffer thought Thrasybulus tion TUESDAY vanity vice virtue wealth Whoever wholly wish