Johnson & Goldsmith & Their PoetryAMS Press, 1971 - 175 pages |
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Page 110
... Pleased with thyself , whom all the world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , 1 With tuneless pipe beside the murmuring Loire ! Where shading elms along the margin grew , And freshened from the wave the zephyr flew ...
... Pleased with thyself , whom all the world can please , How often have I led thy sportive choir , 1 With tuneless pipe beside the murmuring Loire ! Where shading elms along the margin grew , And freshened from the wave the zephyr flew ...
Page 119
... pleased with the versification and mere mechanical parts of this attempt , I do not pretend to inquire ; but I know you will object — and indeed several of our best and wisest friends concur in the opinion - that the depopulation it ...
... pleased with the versification and mere mechanical parts of this attempt , I do not pretend to inquire ; but I know you will object — and indeed several of our best and wisest friends concur in the opinion - that the depopulation it ...
Page 159
... pleased he could whistle them back . Of praise a mere glutton , he swallowed what came ; And the puff of a dunce , he mistook for it fame ; Till his relish grown callous , almost to disease ; Who peppered the highest , was surest to ...
... pleased he could whistle them back . Of praise a mere glutton , he swallowed what came ; And the puff of a dunce , he mistook for it fame ; Till his relish grown callous , almost to disease ; Who peppered the highest , was surest to ...
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