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 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...belongs to Shropshire, though perhaps thirty miles distant from any other part of it. He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of the " Schoolmistress" has delivered to posterity ; and soon received such delight from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...belongs to Shropshire, though perhaps thirty miles distant from any other part of it. He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of the " Schoolmistress" has delivered to posterity — As he grew older, he went for a while to the grammar-school in Hales-Owen, and was placed afterwards... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 362 pages
...of time there was such a number of them as to make up a volume. Shenstone, the poet, learned to read of an old dame, whom his Poem of the Schoolmistress has delivered to posterity ; and soon received such dcr light from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Children - 1808 - 374 pages
...of time there was such a number of them as to make up a volume. Shenstone, the poet, learned to read of an old dame, whom his Poem of the Schoolmistress has delivered to posterity; and soon received such delight from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...mouldering «all, with ivy crovui'di SHENSTONE'S POEMS. Or Gothic turret, pride of ancient days ! Now but of use to grace a rural scene ; To bound our vistas, and to glad the sons Of George's reign, reserv'd fur fairer times ! LOVE AND HONOUR. Sed ñeque Medorum sylvre, ditbsima terra, N00 pulcher... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...mid" t Appears a mouldering wall, with ivy crowo'd ; Or Gothic turret, pride of ancient days ! Now but of use to grace a rural scene ; To bound our vistas, and to glad the sons Of George'* reign, reserv'd for fairer time* ! LOPE AND HONOUR. Sed neque Medomm sylvae, ditissima terra,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...belongs to Shropshire, though perhaps thirty miles distant from any other part of it. He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of the " School-mistress" has delivered to posterity; and soon received such delight from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...Worcestershire,belongsto Shropshire,though perhaps thirty miles distant from any other part of it. He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of The Schoolmistress has delivered to posterity ; and soon received such delight from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...belongs to Shropshire, though perhaps thirty miles distant from any other part of it. He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of the " School-mistress" has delivered to posterity; and soon received such delight from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...helongs to Shropshire, though perhaps thirty miles distant from any other part of it He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of The School-Mistress has delivered to posterity; and soon received such delight from hooks, that he was always tailing for fresh entertainment, and... | |
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