The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... never harsh . Over everything he does , too , his spontaneous grace of manner diffuses a charm which art could never reach . In his less prominent writings , also , there present themselves many hints towards thoughts which those ...
... never harsh . Over everything he does , too , his spontaneous grace of manner diffuses a charm which art could never reach . In his less prominent writings , also , there present themselves many hints towards thoughts which those ...
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... never hated or waxed bitter . A character like this holds out to its analysts temptations towards exaggeration on either side . The biographers of Johnson , while bent on sacrificing every one to their own idol , were not only ...
... never hated or waxed bitter . A character like this holds out to its analysts temptations towards exaggeration on either side . The biographers of Johnson , while bent on sacrificing every one to their own idol , were not only ...
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... never learned how to fit his expendi- ture to his income , and could never find in his heart to resist the cry of another person's distress . The Dublin sizar had given away his blanket to a shivering beggar - woman ; the Edinburgh ...
... never learned how to fit his expendi- ture to his income , and could never find in his heart to resist the cry of another person's distress . The Dublin sizar had given away his blanket to a shivering beggar - woman ; the Edinburgh ...
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... never have gone further than the composition of fragments , had not the consciousness of his own strength , and a longing after the fame which that strength might win , been pressed on him by slow degrees , as he drudged sadly on in ...
... never have gone further than the composition of fragments , had not the consciousness of his own strength , and a longing after the fame which that strength might win , been pressed on him by slow degrees , as he drudged sadly on in ...
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... never able to overcome , made his acquaintance in the end of 1759 , and secured him as a regular coadjutor . In the summer of 1761 , Johnson , whose troubles were nearly over ( the pension was given him in the year after ) , supped in ...
... never able to overcome , made his acquaintance in the end of 1759 , and secured him as a regular coadjutor . In the summer of 1761 , Johnson , whose troubles were nearly over ( the pension was given him in the year after ) , supped in ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth