The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Macmillan, 1912 |
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... poet is the monarch's friend . ' It ought to be reversed . " JOHNSON : " Nay , there are finer lines in Dryden on this subject : ' For colleges on bounteous Kings depend , And never rebel was to arts a friend . " " General Paoli ...
... poet is the monarch's friend . ' It ought to be reversed . " JOHNSON : " Nay , there are finer lines in Dryden on this subject : ' For colleges on bounteous Kings depend , And never rebel was to arts a friend . " " General Paoli ...
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... poet , his Traveller ' is a very fine performance ; ay , and so is his ' Deserted Village , ' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his ' Traveller . ' Whether , indeed , we take him as a poet , -as a comic writer , or as an ...
... poet , his Traveller ' is a very fine performance ; ay , and so is his ' Deserted Village , ' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his ' Traveller . ' Whether , indeed , we take him as a poet , -as a comic writer , or as an ...
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... Poets ' Corner , I said to him , ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis . ' ( Ovid , Art . Am . iii ... poet , notwithstanding his just abhorrence of that sour Repub- more highly of him now than I did at twenty ON BUNYAN ...
... Poets ' Corner , I said to him , ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis . ' ( Ovid , Art . Am . iii ... poet , notwithstanding his just abhorrence of that sour Repub- more highly of him now than I did at twenty ON BUNYAN ...
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... poets . " Some of the company expressed a wonder why the author of so excellent a book as " The Whole Duty of Man " should conceal himself . JOHNSON : " There may be different reasons assigned for this , any one of which would be very ...
... poets . " Some of the company expressed a wonder why the author of so excellent a book as " The Whole Duty of Man " should conceal himself . JOHNSON : " There may be different reasons assigned for this , any one of which would be very ...
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... poet so trusted before ? " You may , if you please , put the inscription thus : " Maria Scotorum Regina nata 15— , a suis in exilium acta 15— , ab hospitâ neci data 15— . ' You must find the years . " Of your second daughter you ...
... poet so trusted before ? " You may , if you please , put the inscription thus : " Maria Scotorum Regina nata 15— , a suis in exilium acta 15— , ab hospitâ neci data 15— . ' You must find the years . " Of your second daughter you ...
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