“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent, 1949 |
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... verses , which I have not been able to recover ; 1 but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the following lines which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector , VERSES to a LADY , on ...
... verses , which I have not been able to recover ; 1 but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the following lines which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector , VERSES to a LADY , on ...
Page 48
... Verses Dr. Johnson gave her on a Sprig of Myrtle , which he had stolen or begged from her bosom . We all know honest Lucy Porter to have been incapable of the mean vanity of applying to herself a compliment not intended for her . " Such ...
... Verses Dr. Johnson gave her on a Sprig of Myrtle , which he had stolen or begged from her bosom . We all know honest Lucy Porter to have been incapable of the mean vanity of applying to herself a compliment not intended for her . " Such ...
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... verses of that descrip- tion , he appears by a slight variation to have sometimes given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the ...
... verses of that descrip- tion , he appears by a slight variation to have sometimes given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the ...
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