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... essay begins on the topic of sleep . Johnson notes with satisfaction the blow to human arrogance that the failure to explain so simple a thing as sleep represents . To sleep , perchance to dream . The rest of the essay turns to the ...
... essay begins on the topic of sleep . Johnson notes with satisfaction the blow to human arrogance that the failure to explain so simple a thing as sleep represents . To sleep , perchance to dream . The rest of the essay turns to the ...
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... essay which is once again unmistakably self - inclusive , particularly in its final para- graph , Johnson extends an ... essay . Yet , when , later in the essay , he comes to handle memory as an aspect of middle age , the ' treasures of ...
... essay which is once again unmistakably self - inclusive , particularly in its final para- graph , Johnson extends an ... essay . Yet , when , later in the essay , he comes to handle memory as an aspect of middle age , the ' treasures of ...
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... essay concludes with Themistocles ' preference that , rather than learn an art of memory , he could be taught the art of forget- fulness . In a way which is strongly reminiscent of Idler 32 , and the search for ' forgetfulness of ...
... essay concludes with Themistocles ' preference that , rather than learn an art of memory , he could be taught the art of forget- fulness . In a way which is strongly reminiscent of Idler 32 , and the search for ' forgetfulness of ...
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surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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