Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1927 |
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... happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself , must drive my goats , Far from their antient fields and humble cots . This scarce I lead , who left on yonder rock Two tender kids , the hopes of all the flock . Had we not been ...
... happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself , must drive my goats , Far from their antient fields and humble cots . This scarce I lead , who left on yonder rock Two tender kids , the hopes of all the flock . Had we not been ...
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... happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , ' Sir , we are a nest of sing- ing birds . ' He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own College ...
... happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , ' Sir , we are a nest of sing- ing birds . ' He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own College ...
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... happy an union of force , vivacity , and perspicuity . I have perused the book with this view , and have found that here , as I believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the translator's own style ...
... happy an union of force , vivacity , and perspicuity . I have perused the book with this view , and have found that here , as I believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the translator's own style ...
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... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lovers ' grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart , And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart ...
... happy swain , In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain ; The myrtle crowns the happy lovers ' heads , The unhappy lovers ' grave the myrtle spreads : O then the meaning of thy gift impart , And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart ...
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... happy expressions ; and of the disjecta membra scattered through- out , and as yet unarranged , a good dramatick poet might avail himself with considerable advantage . I shall give my readers some specimens of different kinds ...
... happy expressions ; and of the disjecta membra scattered through- out , and as yet unarranged , a good dramatick poet might avail himself with considerable advantage . I shall give my readers some specimens of different kinds ...
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