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The Works of Samuel Johnson: With an Essay on His Life and Genius - Page 47
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...exhibited together. ' One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...fill with idle notions, till in time they make their plaything an author. Their first diversion commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises perhaps...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...exhibited together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...fill with idle notions, till in time they make their plaything an author : their first diversion commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises perhaps...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and Journey

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 pages
...exhibited together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...fill with idle notions, till in time they make their plaything an author : their first diversion commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises perhaps...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 596 pages
...'•> i together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...fill with idle notions, till in time they make their plaything an author : their first diversion commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises perhaps...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 586 pages
...exhibited together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...theirs. A head thus prepared for the reception of falss opinions, and the projection of vain designs, they easily fill with idle notions, till in time...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 pages
...exhibited together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...fill with idle notions till in time they make their plaything an author : their first diversion commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises perhaps...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 542 pages
...exhibited together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...with idle notions, till, in time, they make their plaything an author ; their first diversion commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...exhibited together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...notice of those who suffer him to court theirs. A head version commonly begins with an ode or an epistle, then rises perhaps to a political irony, and is...
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Pope's Essay on man, ed., with annotations &c. by J. Hunter

Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...exhibited together. One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...opinions, and the projection of vain designs, they easily till with idle notions, till in time they make their plaything an author : their first diversion commonly...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 47

1885 - 932 pages
...and deaf. .... One sport the merry malice of these beings has found means of enjoying, to which we have nothing equal or similar. They now and then catch...court his kindness, or the notice of those who suffer Lim to court theirs. A head thus prepared for the reception of false opinions, and the projection of...
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