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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 581
by James Boswell - 1791 - 516 pages
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An Anthology of Modern English Prose (1741 to 1892)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 pages
...mind govern, and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he i ode,...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...does mind govern and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode,...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...does mind govern and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode,...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...does mind govern and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs ; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode,...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...mind govern, and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode,...
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Boswell's Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...mind govern, and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs: when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode,...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 pages
...does mind govern and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walk'd, it was like the straggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode,...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 436 pages
...does mind govern and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...temperament, that he never knew the natural joy of ;i free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walk'd, it was like the straggling gait of one in fetters...
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Literature for the Business Man

Gerald Edwin Se Boyar - American literature - 1925 - 456 pages
...does mind govern and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs: when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...mind govern, and even supply the deficiency of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid...never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode,...
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