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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 109 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

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In Rasselas (ch. ii.) we read that the prince's look 'discovered him to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.' See ante, April 8, 1780.

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