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... mother Your dutiful son , SAM . JOHNSON . Two days later , and another letter : DEAR HONOURED MOTHER , you I fear you are too ill for long letters ; therefore I will only tell you , that you have from me all the regard that can possibly ...
... mother Your dutiful son , SAM . JOHNSON . Two days later , and another letter : DEAR HONOURED MOTHER , you I fear you are too ill for long letters ; therefore I will only tell you , that you have from me all the regard that can possibly ...
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... mother , of the best mother . If she were to live again , surely I should behave better to her .... I shall send a bill of twenty pounds in a few days , which I thought to have brought to my mother ; but God suffered it not . ' ' Which ...
... mother , of the best mother . If she were to live again , surely I should behave better to her .... I shall send a bill of twenty pounds in a few days , which I thought to have brought to my mother ; but God suffered it not . ' ' Which ...
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... mother's funeral ' . Johnson wrote Rasselas instead of going to see his mother while she still survived . It was written in anticipation of her funeral . There is no doubting Johnson's generosity , and no question but that the ' thirty ...
... mother's funeral ' . Johnson wrote Rasselas instead of going to see his mother while she still survived . It was written in anticipation of her funeral . There is no doubting Johnson's generosity , and no question but that the ' thirty ...
Contents
surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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