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" Tully, who does not believe that he may yet live another year; and there is none who does not, upon the same principle, hope another year for his parent or his friend: but the fallacy will be in time detected; the last year, the last day, must come. It... "
Works - Page 145
by Samuel Johnson - 1811
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The Idler: In Two Volumes. ...

1761 - 308 pages
...made my own life pleafant is at an end, and the gates of death are fhut upon my profpects. THE lofs of a friend upon whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wifh and endeavour tended, is a ftate of dreary defolation in which the mind looks abroad impatient...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...made my own life pleafant is at an end, and the gates of death are fhut upon my profpeets. The lofs of a friend upon whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wifh and endeavour tended, is a ftate of dreary defolation in which the mind looks abroad impatient...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...made my own life pleafant is at an end, and the gates of death' are fhut upon my profpects. The lofs of a friend upon whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wifh and endeavour tended, is a flate of dreary clefolation in which the mind looks abroad impatient...
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The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...made my own life pleafant is at an end, and the gates of death are fliut upon my profpects. The lofs of a friend upon whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wifh and endeavour tended,, is a. ftate of dreary dcfolation in which the mind looka abroad impatient...
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Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library, Volume 2

1794 - 518 pages
...year, the last day, will come ; it has come, and is past. — " The life which made my own life f< pleasant is at an end, and the gates of death are shut upon my pros<f pects." looks abroad impatient of itself, and finds nothing but emptiness and horror. The blameless...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...Johnson shews his grief for his loss. ' The last year, the last day must come. It has come, and is past. The life which made my own life pleasant is at an...and the gates of death are shut upon my prospects. . . . Such is the condition of our present existence that life must one time lose its associations,...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Johnson shews his grief for his loss. ' The last year, the last day must come. It has come, and is past. The life which made my own life pleasant is at an...and the gates of death are shut upon my prospects. . . . Such is the condition of our present existence that life must one time lose its associations,...
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A Critical Enquiry Into the Moral Writings of Dr. Samuel Johnson: In which ...

William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...probably written under the influence of his mother's death, which happened about this time. He says, " the life which made my own life pleasant is at an end, and the gates of death; >ai;e, shut upon my prospects." ) ' 'There. ,i?'.< -an expressive sensibility in the following quotation,...
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Select British Classics, Volume 9

1803 - 196 pages
...fallacy will be in time detected ; the last year, the last day must come. It has come and is past. The life which made my own life pleasant is at an end, and the gates of death are shut upon my pi«spects. The loss of a friend upon whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wish and endeavour tended,'...
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The Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion Exhibited: In Two Parts ...

Hannah Adams - 1804 - 398 pages
...under the lofs of near and dear friends is thus feelingly defcribed by the great Dr. Johnfon. The lofs of a friend, upon whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wifh and endeavour tended, is a flate of dreary defolation, in which the mind looks abroad impatient...
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