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Page 143 - There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the Year, ' By Hands unseen, are show'rs of Violets found ; ' The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, ' And little Footsteps lightly print the Ground.) The EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Page 162 - Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again.
Page 256 - In short, the whole air of our party was sufficient, as you will easily imagine, to take up the whole attention of the garden ; so much so, that from eleven o'clock till half an hour after one we had the whole concourse round our booth : at last, they came into the little gardens of each booth on the sides of ours, till Harry Vane took up a bumper, and drank their healths, and was proceeding to treat them with still greater freedom. It was three o'clock before we got home.
Page 120 - Scarce can our fields, such crowds at Tyburn die, With hemp the gallows and the fleet supply. Propose your schemes, ye Senatorian band, Whose Ways and Means* support the sinking land; Lest ropes be wanting in the tempting spring, To rig another convoy for the k g.
Page 187 - His opinion in this will not be amiss; 'tis what I intend, my principal end, and if I succeed, and folks should read till a few are brought to a serious thought, I...
Page 187 - ... now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, though...
Page 89 - Johnson candidly describes himself as " a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning.
Page 89 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.
Page 142 - Dead, Dost in these notes their artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease...
Page 99 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...