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...at his table, but had a cover at his hospitable board every day when I happened to be disengaged; and in his society I never failed to enjoy learned and animated conversation, seasoned with genuine sentiments of virtue and religion. BOSWELL. See _ante_, i. 127, and ii. 59, note 1. The couplet from Pope is from _Imitations of Horace_, _Epist_. ii. 2. 276.
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'Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never _is_, but always _to be_ blest.'
_Essay on Man_, i. 95.
[1047] The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ' _The Rambler_, No. 2. See _post_, iii. 53, and June 12, 1784. Swift defined happiness as 'a perpetual possession of being well deceived.' _Tale of a Tub_, Sect, ix., Swift's _Works_, ed. 1803, iii. 154.
[1048] See _post_, March 29, 1776.
[1049] The General seemed unwilling to enter upon it at this time; but upon a subsequent occasion he communicated to me a number of particulars, which I have committed to writing; but I was not sufficiently diligent in obtaining more from him, not... Johnson, Samuel

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