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If gratitude should be acknowledged for favours re- ceived , I have this opportunity , my dear sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times ...
If gratitude should be acknowledged for favours re- ceived , I have this opportunity , my dear sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I owe to your kindness - for the cordiality with which you have at all times ...
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My admiration only I exprest , ( No spark of envy harbours in my breast , ) That , when confusion o'er the country reigns , Το you alone this happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself ...
My admiration only I exprest , ( No spark of envy harbours in my breast , ) That , when confusion o'er the country reigns , Το you alone this happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself ...
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Being himself a poet , Johnson was pe- culiarly 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 ...
Being himself a poet , Johnson was pe- culiarly 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 ...
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This being the first prose work of Johnson , it is a curious object of inquiry how much may be traced in it of that style which marks his subsequent writings with such peculiar excellence ; with so happy an union of force , vivacity ...
This being the first prose work of Johnson , it is a curious object of inquiry how much may be traced in it of that style which marks his subsequent writings with such peculiar excellence ; with so happy an union of force , vivacity ...
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In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : i From some papers of the late Mr. Malone's , which ...
In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : i From some papers of the late Mr. Malone's , which ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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