The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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... happy hours which I owe to your kindness , —for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , - for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have in- troduced me , for the noctes cœnæque Deum ...
... happy hours which I owe to your kindness , —for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , - for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have in- troduced me , for the noctes cœnæque Deum ...
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... happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself , must drive my goats , Far from their antient fields and humble cots . This scarce I lead , who left on yonder rock Two tender kids , the hopes of all the flock . Had we not been ...
... happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself , must drive my goats , Far from their antient fields and humble cots . This scarce I lead , who left on yonder rock Two tender kids , the hopes of all the flock . Had we not been ...
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... happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , " Sir , we are a nest of singing birds . " He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own college ...
... happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , " Sir , we are a nest of singing birds . " He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own college ...
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... happy an union of force , vivacity , and perspicuity . I have perused the book with this view , and have found that here , as I believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the trans- lator's own style ...
... happy an union of force , vivacity , and perspicuity . I have perused the book with this view , and have found that here , as I believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the trans- lator's own style ...
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... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : 1 [ He also wrote some amatory verses , before he left Staffordshire , which our authour appears not to have seen . They were addressed " to Miss Hickman , playing on the ...
... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : 1 [ He also wrote some amatory verses , before he left Staffordshire , which our authour appears not to have seen . They were addressed " to Miss Hickman , playing on the ...
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