The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 16

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Samuel Johnson
C. Bathurst, 1779
 

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Страница 301 - And always in extreme. Now with a noiseless gentle course It keeps within the middle bed.; . Anon it lifts aloft the head, And bears down all before it with impetuous force : And trunks of trees come rolling down...
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Страница 301 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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