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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ... - Page 3
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure ; yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place...
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Rasselas

Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 120 pages
...pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover m me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man sureiy has some latent sense, for which this place...
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The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 452 pages
...that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me, no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense, for which this place...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has »• 30 CATHCART'S LITERARY READER. some...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections Form Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure ; yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place...
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A Manual of English Prose Literature..

William Minto - 1881 - 596 pages
...Rasselas in the happy valley reasons acutely on the causes of his discontent : — "I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasures, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has sonic latent sense for which this place...
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English Lessons, for Schoolroom Use

Kathleen Knox - 1882 - 156 pages
...that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place...
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The history of the caliph Vathek, by W. Beckford [tr. by S. Henley]. Also ...

William Beckford - 1883 - 454 pages
...that pleased me yesterday weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow. I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place...
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