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Page 43 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
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Page 2 - My thoughtless youth was wing'd with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
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Page 493 - II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbances in France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 May 2005 |
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