With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life from consciousness... The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 309by Samuel Johnson - 1823Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 176 pages
...complacence in his own perlpicacity, and to receive fome fblace of the miferies of life, from confcioufnefe of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them. He mingled glfcd cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and aU rejoiced to find' that his heart was lightened.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the miferies of life, from confcioufnefs of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence...which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the miferies of life, from confcioufncfs of. the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence...which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...receive fome folace of the miferies of life, from confcioufnefs of the delicacy with which he felc, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find thiu his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS... | |
| 1788 - 778 pages
...in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the mifei ¡es of life, from conl'cittufnefs of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence...which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfiors of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the miferies of life, from confcioufnefs of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence...which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. THE WANTS OF HIM... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...complacence in his own perlpicacity, and to receive fome fokce of the miferies of life, from corifcioufiiefs of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence...which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pages
...complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the miferies of life, from confcioufnefs of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence...which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the miferies of life, from confcioufnefs of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence...which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...With observations like these the Prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel...all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened. CHAP. III. THE WANTS 0V HIM THAT WANTS NOTHING. ON the next day his old instructor, imagining that... | |
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