The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lover's heads , Th ' unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart , And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart ...
... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lover's heads , Th ' unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart , And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart ...
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... happy state : I promise you that anarchy , poverty , and death shall , by my care , be carried even across the spacious Atlantic , and settle in America itself . the sure consequences of our beloved whiggism . " This I thought a thing ...
... happy state : I promise you that anarchy , poverty , and death shall , by my care , be carried even across the spacious Atlantic , and settle in America itself . the sure consequences of our beloved whiggism . " This I thought a thing ...
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... happy . — What signifies , says some one , giving halfpence to common beggars ? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco . " And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence ( says Johnson ) ? it is surely very savage to ...
... happy . — What signifies , says some one , giving halfpence to common beggars ? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco . " And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence ( says Johnson ) ? it is surely very savage to ...
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... happy mien she knew , Which even to virtue gives the limits due ; Whate'er employ'd her , that she seem'd to chuse , Her house , her friends , her business , or the muse . Admir'd and loved , the theme of general praise , All to such ...
... happy mien she knew , Which even to virtue gives the limits due ; Whate'er employ'd her , that she seem'd to chuse , Her house , her friends , her business , or the muse . Admir'd and loved , the theme of general praise , All to such ...
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... happy in his conversation with them , as to please all , though he flattered none . He was born in the year 1724 , and died in 1781 . In the same tomb lie interred his father , Ralph Thrale , a man of vigour and activity , And his only ...
... happy in his conversation with them , as to please all , though he flattered none . He was born in the year 1724 , and died in 1781 . In the same tomb lie interred his father , Ralph Thrale , a man of vigour and activity , And his only ...
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