Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H. Washbourne, 1857 - 580 pages |
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... verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boy- ish days , two or three years before he had seen her mo- ther , his future wife . He wrote them at my grandfa- ther's , and gave them to Lucy in the ...
... verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boy- ish days , two or three years before he had seen her mo- ther , his future wife . He wrote them at my grandfa- ther's , and gave them to Lucy in the ...
Page 154
... verses , but who lite- " that there was as great a difference between rally had no other notion of a verse , but them as between a man who knew how a that it consisted of ten syllables . Lay your watch was made , and a man who could ...
... verses , but who lite- " that there was as great a difference between rally had no other notion of a verse , but them as between a man who knew how a that it consisted of ten syllables . Lay your watch was made , and a man who could ...
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... verses to the foun- tain - head , after having in vain turned over several of our elder poets with the hope of lighting on them , I applied to Dr. Maxwell , now resident at Bath , for the purpose of ascertaining their author : but that ...
... verses to the foun- tain - head , after having in vain turned over several of our elder poets with the hope of lighting on them , I applied to Dr. Maxwell , now resident at Bath , for the purpose of ascertaining their author : but that ...
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