The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1934 |
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... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been able to recover ; 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 ...
... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been able to recover ; 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 ...
Page 47
... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Anecdotes , P. 34 . In my first edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of ...
... wrote the nonsense you now keep such a stir about . " Anecdotes , P. 34 . In my first edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of ...
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... wrote Memoirs of his own time , in Latin , from which Boswell has extracted this scrap of pedantry . Croker . 51. Ut pueris , etc. Horace , Sat. i . 1 , 25 . " As masters fondly soothe their boys to read With cakes and sweetmeats ...
... wrote Memoirs of his own time , in Latin , from which Boswell has extracted this scrap of pedantry . Croker . 51. Ut pueris , etc. Horace , Sat. i . 1 , 25 . " As masters fondly soothe their boys to read With cakes and sweetmeats ...
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