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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone - Page 173
by James Boswell - 1821
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." 6 We happened to lie this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone wrote these lines.* • T give...
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Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...ready to supply my wants: wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight.'" 183 POLITICS. JOHNSON arraigned the modern politics of this...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in thi» conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." 1776. » May sigh to think he still has found...
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The Table Talk of John Selden

John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight.' " . ; • n ' : ' •>.*•.•.' .1. '* • • . •••'•....
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight,' " must be owned, that Johnson, though he could be rigidly abstemious, was not a temperate man either...
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Johnsoniana..

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 382 pages
...there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of diseourse with those whom I most love: I dogmatise, and am contradicted...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.' " must be owned/ that Johnson, though he could be rigidly abstemious, was not a temperate man either...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1820 - 542 pages
...• •>• '• .'. tradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find, delight." * We happened to lie this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone wrote these lines.* t " He too often makes use of the abstract for the concrete." * I give them as they are found in the...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 16

British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation, and an interchange of discourse with these whom 1 most love: I dogmatise, and am contradicted ; and...conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.' " must be owned, that Johnson, though he could be rigidly abstemious, was not a temperate man either...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most low : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." * We happened to lie this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone wrote these lines.* * I give...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...ready to supply my wants : wine, there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and ant contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight." 6 We happened to...
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