The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... time be by his writings preserved in admiration . 1 The ( third ) Earl and Countess of Jersey . 2 Plutarch's Life of Alexander , init . - Langhorne's translation . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER 7 " There are many 6 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF ...
... time be by his writings preserved in admiration . 1 The ( third ) Earl and Countess of Jersey . 2 Plutarch's Life of Alexander , init . - Langhorne's translation . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER 7 " There are many 6 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF ...
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... Translation of VIRGIL . Pastoral I. MELIBUS . Now , Tityrus , you , supine and careless laid , Play on your pipe beneath this beechen shade ; While wretched we about the world must roam , And leave our pleasing fields and native home ...
... Translation of VIRGIL . Pastoral I. MELIBUS . Now , Tityrus , you , supine and careless laid , Play on your pipe beneath this beechen shade ; While wretched we about the world must roam , And leave our pleasing fields and native home ...
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... Translation of HORACE . Book II . Ode ix . CLOUDS do not always veil the skies , Nor showers immerse the verdant plain ; Nor do the billows always rise , Or storms afflict the ruffled main : Nor , Valgius , on th ' Armenian shores Do ...
... Translation of HORACE . Book II . Ode ix . CLOUDS do not always veil the skies , Nor showers immerse the verdant plain ; Nor do the billows always rise , Or storms afflict the ruffled main : Nor , Valgius , on th ' Armenian shores Do ...
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... Translation of part of the Dialogue between HECTOR and ANDRO- MACHE ; from the Sixth Book of HOMER'S ILIAD . SHE ceased ; then god - like Hector answer'd kind , ( His various plumage sporting in the wind ) That post , and all the rest ...
... Translation of part of the Dialogue between HECTOR and ANDRO- MACHE ; from the Sixth Book of HOMER'S ILIAD . SHE ceased ; then god - like Hector answer'd kind , ( His various plumage sporting in the wind ) That post , and all the rest ...
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... translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it 1 Oxford , 20th March , 1776. B. 2 It ought to be remembered , that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral exercises , to overcharge ...
... translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it 1 Oxford , 20th March , 1776. B. 2 It ought to be remembered , that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral exercises , to overcharge ...
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