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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Page 13
by Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 304 pages
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes

Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 176 pages
...not, ' like him, fatiffied with fulnefs. The intermediate' hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the proves where they fit in feeming happinefs on the...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 2

1762 - 578 pages
...I long again tobe hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries out of the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they fit in feeming happinefs on the branches, and wafte tbeir lives in tuning one unvaried feries of founds. I likewife can call the lutenift and the finger...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...not, like him, fatisfied with fulnefs. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy 5 I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves where they fit in feeming happinefs on the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...not, like him, fatisfied with fulnefs. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves where they fit in ferming happinefs on the...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...rtot, like him, fatisfied with fulnefs. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves where they fit in feeming happinefs on th,e...
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The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 23

1788 - 778 pages
...not, like him, fatisfied with fulntfs. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves where they fit in feeming happincfs on the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...not, like him, fatisfied with fiilnefs. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they fit in feeming happinefs on the...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 21

1759 - 760 pages
...tedious and gloomy; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. Tire birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves where they fit in feeming happinefs on the blanches, and v.alic their lives in tuning one unvaried (tries of (bunds. 1 Nkewifc can cell the Imanifr....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pages
...not, like him, fatisfied with fulnefs. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries or the corn, and fly away to the groves, where they fit in feeming happinefs on the...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 2

1802 - 522 pages
...not, like him satisfied with fulness. The intermediate hours are tedious and gloomy ; I long again to be hungry, that I may again quicken my attention. The birds peck the berries out of the corn, and ily' away to the groves, where they sit in seeming happiness...
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