The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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Page 71
... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : Oh then the meaning of thy gift impart , And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart ...
... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain : The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lover's grave the myrtle spreads : Oh then the meaning of thy gift impart , And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart ...
Page 87
... happy a style of compliment , that Cave must have been destitute both of taste and sensibility , had he not felt himself highly gratified . Ad URBANUM . * URBANE , nullis fesse laboribus , URBANE , nullis victe calumniis , Cui fronte ...
... happy a style of compliment , that Cave must have been destitute both of taste and sensibility , had he not felt himself highly gratified . Ad URBANUM . * URBANE , nullis fesse laboribus , URBANE , nullis victe calumniis , Cui fronte ...
Page 95
... happy fav'rites see ; Mark whom the great caress , who frown on me . " " Has heaven reserved , in pity to the poor , No pathless waste , or undiscover'd shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd ...
... happy fav'rites see ; Mark whom the great caress , who frown on me . " " Has heaven reserved , in pity to the poor , No pathless waste , or undiscover'd shore ? No secret island in the boundless main ? No peaceful desert yet unclaim'd ...
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