The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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Page xi
... 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 introduced me , -for the noctes cænæque 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 introduced me , -for the noctes cænæque Deum ...
Page 22
... happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself , must drive my goats Far from their ancient 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 ancient 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 ...
Page 41
... 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 ...
Page 49
... happy a 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 translator's own style ...
... happy a 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 translator's own style ...
Page 53
... happy swain ; In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : 1 A prize of fifty pounds for the best poem " on Life , Death , Judgment , Heaven ...
... happy swain ; In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : 1 A prize of fifty pounds for the best poem " on Life , Death , Judgment , Heaven ...
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