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... happy hours which I owe to your kindness for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have introduced me for the " noctes cœnæque Deum , " which I ...
... happy hours which I owe to your kindness for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have introduced me for the " noctes cœnæque Deum , " which I ...
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... Happy for many a reader would it have been , could a like eulogy be honestly pronounced on every memoir . And even Johnson's character , weighed in this exact balance , has not been found wanting . He is unveiled before us ; his every ...
... Happy for many a reader would it have been , could a like eulogy be honestly pronounced on every memoir . And even Johnson's character , weighed in this exact balance , has not been found wanting . He is unveiled before us ; his every ...
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... happy would the learned world have been , " says the present bishop Huntingford , " had Pericles , Plato , or Socrates possessed such a friend and companion as Boswell was to Dr. Johnson . " As a picture of men and manners , the chief ...
... happy would the learned world have been , " says the present bishop Huntingford , " had Pericles , Plato , or Socrates possessed such a friend and companion as Boswell was to Dr. Johnson . " As a picture of men and manners , the chief ...
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... happy state remains . Here I , though faint myself , must drive my goats , Far from their ancient 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 ancient 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 singing birds . " He was not , however , blind to what he thought the de- fects 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 singing birds . " He was not , however , blind to what he thought the de- fects of his own college ...
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