Life and Writings, Volume 1Harper, 1860 |
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Page 55
... Delight no more : I seek my lonely bed , And call on sleep to sooth my languid head . But sleep from these sad lids flies far away ; I mourn all night , and dread the coming day . Exhausted , tired , I throw my eyes around , To find ...
... Delight no more : I seek my lonely bed , And call on sleep to sooth my languid head . But sleep from these sad lids flies far away ; I mourn all night , and dread the coming day . Exhausted , tired , I throw my eyes around , To find ...
Page 61
... delighted in the conversation of Mr. Burke . He met him for the first time at Mr. Gar- rick's . On the next day he said , " I suppose , Mur- phy , you are proud of your countryman . " From that time his constant observation was , " That ...
... delighted in the conversation of Mr. Burke . He met him for the first time at Mr. Gar- rick's . On the next day he said , " I suppose , Mur- phy , you are proud of your countryman . " From that time his constant observation was , " That ...
Page 75
... delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods- " And from Milton , " Who would lose , For fear of pain , this intellectual being ? " By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in a state of destitution , with nobody but Frank , his black ...
... delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods- " And from Milton , " Who would lose , For fear of pain , this intellectual being ? " By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in a state of destitution , with nobody but Frank , his black ...
Page 84
... delight . The proper study of mankind is man . Sooner than hear of the Punic war , he would be rude to the person that introduced the subject . Johnson was born a logician ; one of those to whom only books of logic are said to be of use ...
... delight . The proper study of mankind is man . Sooner than hear of the Punic war , he would be rude to the person that introduced the subject . Johnson was born a logician ; one of those to whom only books of logic are said to be of use ...
Page 102
... delightful season ; but I have the satisfaction of finding many , whom it can be no shame to resemble , infected with the same enthu- siasm ; for there is , I believe , scarce any poet of eminence who has not left some testimony of his ...
... delightful season ; but I have the satisfaction of finding many , whom it can be no shame to resemble , infected with the same enthu- siasm ; for there is , I believe , scarce any poet of eminence who has not left some testimony of his ...
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