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«Players, Sir! I look upon them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint-stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs»
«Money confounds subordination»
«To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult to conceive how man can consist without a newspaper, or to what entertainment companies can assemble»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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assemble, companies, consist, Day to Day, entertainment, materials, regale, regaled, regaling, supplied
«The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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assailant, inclined, liberty of the press, overbear, overbearing, overborne
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Fear
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assist, beset, besets, besetting, overbear, overbearing, overborne, phantoms, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place»
«We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him»
«As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Errors
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consults, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, meanness, retract, retracted, retracts
«The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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interposition, invigorate, invigorated, invigorates, invigorating, lustre, The Shades
«Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult»
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