Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . rO 4^ 7><i? L# M •^^ DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709—1784. As it amused Adam to see the elephant gambol before him andtwining his lithe proboscis, it may amuse our readers to see thegreat lexicographer penning amatory verses, and rolling his Cyclo-pean head to the dainty but attenuated music of a spinnet. It ispleasant to watch the great moralist bound like Hercules to aspinning wheel, and writing playful verses for arch and cleverMrs. Piozzi. TO MRS. THRALE,
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . rO 4^ 7><i? L# M •^^ DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709—1784. As it amused Adam to see the elephant gambol before him andtwining his lithe proboscis, it may amuse our readers to see thegreat lexicographer penning amatory verses, and rolling his Cyclo-pean head to the dainty but attenuated music of a spinnet. It ispleasant to watch the great moralist bound like Hercules to aspinning wheel, and writing playful verses for arch and cleverMrs. Piozzi. TO MRS. THRALE, ON HER COMPLETING HER THIRTY-FIFTH Oft in danger, yet are come to thirty-five ;Long may better years arri\c,lietter years than thirty-five !Could philosophers contriveLife to stop at thirty-five,Time his hours should never driveOer the bounds of to soar and deep to-diveNature gives at , stock and tend your Jiivc,Trifle not at thirty-five ; 89 X ?^z L>X», J
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