Date: Tuesday, November 27, 1750
"Being accustomed to give the future full power over my mind, and to start away from the scene before me to some expected enjoyment, I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests, and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 1750
"I had formed schemes which I cannot execute, I had supposed events which do not come to pass, and the rest of my life must pass in craving solicitude, unless you can find some remedy for a mind, corrupted with an inveterate disease of wishing, and unable to think on any thing but wants, which re...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)