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Life of Johnson - Page 643
by James Boswell - 1904
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 36

1806 - 770 pages
...pomp and plenty, Great ******* are DOW your own. Lmsen'd from the minor's tethef, Free to mortage, or to sell ; Wild as wind and light as feather, Bid...sons of thrift farewell. Call the Betseys, Kates and Jenneys, All the names that banish care ; Lavish of yourgrari''8ire'i guineas, Shew the spirit of an...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...which no other instance is to be found in Johnson's 1784. writings, I shall here insert it : ^EAM. 75.' Long-expected one-and-twenty, Ling'ring year, at length...Shew the spirit of an heir. : All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, * There the lender, grave...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...author's first essays in that way of writing, and a beginner is ajways to be treated with tenderness." M.] Loosen'd from the Minor's tether, Free to mortgage...the spirit of an heir. - "* ' All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...in seeming zeal a wicked purpose And only build upon another's ruin. ONE AND TWENTY. I.oNn-expected one-and-twenty, Ling'ring year, at length is flown...feather, Bid the sons of thrift farewell. Call the fietsies, Kate* and Jcnn'rs, All the names that banish care ; Lavish of ynur fraud si re's guineas,...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...wicked purpose And only build upon auother's ruin. OXE AND TJVEJfTY. Lone-expected one-and-twcnty, Ling'ring year, at length is flown : Pride and pleasure,...feather, Bid the sons of thrift farewell. Call the Retain, Kates and Jennies, All the numes that banish care ; Lavish of ynur grandsire's guineas, Show...
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The Belfast Monthly Magazine, Volume 6

1811 - 550 pages
...of thrift farewclf. Call the Betsys, Kates, and Jenny*, All the names that baniih care ; J .i-.-'xi. of your grandsire's guineas, Shew the spirit of an heir. All that prey on vice or folly Joy to *ee their Quarry fly ; There the gamester bght and jolly* There the lender grave and sly. Wealth, my...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1820 - 476 pages
...year, at length is flown ; Pride and pleasure, pomp and plenty, Great , are now your own. Loosen 'd from the Minor's tether, Free to mortgage or to sell,...Shew the spirit of an heir. All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly ; There the gamester, light and jolly, , There the lender, grave...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 5

James Boswell - 1821 - 380 pages
...authour's first essays in that way of writing, and a beginner is always to be treated with tenderness." M.] Long-expected one-and-twenty, Ling'ring year, at length...Shew the spirit of an heir. All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly; There $ie gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

1822 - 292 pages
...makes as good a sky, And I but flatter less. ONE-AND-TWENTY. LONG expected one-and-twenty, Lingering year, at length is flown : Pride and pleasure, pomp...feather, Bid the sons of thrift farewell. Call the Betsies, Kates, and Jennies, All the names that banish care, Lavish of your grandsire's guineas, Show...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 320 pages
...one-and-twenty, Lingering year, at length is flown : Pride and pleasure, pomp and plenty, Great *** ****J are now your own. Loosen'd from the minor's tether,...feather, Bid the sons of thrift farewell. Call the Betsies, Kates, and Jennies, AH the names that banish care, Lavish of your grandsire's guineas, Show...
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