The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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... verses , which I have not been able to recover ; but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the following lines which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector . VERSES to a LADY , on ...
... verses , which I have not been able to recover ; but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the following lines which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector . VERSES to a LADY , on ...
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... verses of that descrip- tion , he appears by a slight variation to have sometimes given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the ...
... verses of that descrip- tion , he appears by a slight variation to have sometimes given them a moral turn , and to have dexterously adapted them to his own sentiments , where the original had a very different tendency . Thus , in the ...
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... verses to the authour of that song . " " 1 Smith's Latin verses on Pococke , the great traveller , 2 were mentioned . He repeated some of them , and said they were Smith's best verses . He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling ...
... verses to the authour of that song . " " 1 Smith's Latin verses on Pococke , the great traveller , 2 were mentioned . He repeated some of them , and said they were Smith's best verses . He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling ...
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