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" Oft in danger, yet alive, We are come to thirty-five; Long may better years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar,... "
The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 207
by British poets - 1822
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Samuel Johnson, His Words and His Ways, what He Said, what He Did, and what ...

Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds...wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five." "And now," said he, as I was writing them down," you may see what it is to come for poetry to a dictionary-maker;...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...That wrung my spirit's inmost groan. Hunger is bitter, but the worst Of human pangs, the most accursed THIRTY-FIVE. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle...For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty -five ; He that ever hopes to thrive, Must begin by thirty-five. Dr. Johnson, to Mrs. Thrale,...
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Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities

William T. Dobson - 1882 - 326 pages
...years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds...wish to wive, Must look on Thrale at thirty-five." Moore, in his " Life of Sheridan," says that he (Sheridan) " had a sort of hereditary fancy for difficult...
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The tablets of the heart: poems, rhymes, and aphorisms, selected and ...

Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty-five. I * TABLETS OF THE HEART. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five...wish to wive, Must look on Thrale at thirty-five. SAMUEL JOHNSON. TO A YOUNG LADY. MAY this returning day for ever find Thy form more lovely, more adorn'd...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets, Volume 1

Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...mouth to crave One drop — the last — to cool it for the grave. 0199 Pyron.- Lara. Canto ii. St. 18 THIRTY-FIVE. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle...that ever hopes to thrive, Must begin by thirty-five. 5200 Dr. Johnson : To Mrs. Thrale, when thirty-flvf Of all the barb'rous Middle Ages, that Which is...
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Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 pages
...years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds...wish to wive, Must look on Thrale at thirty-five." " And now (said he, as I was writing them down), you may see what it is to come for poetry to a Dictionary-maker...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour ..., Volume 6

James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty -five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five....thirty-five : He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty -five 5 And all who wisely wish to wive, Must look on Thrale at thirty-five." Mr. Johnson did...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...part which Dr. Johnson's friendship for me made him take in it was the occasion of an exertion .of For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from...wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five." his abilities, which it would be injustice to conceal. That what he wrote upon the subject may be understood,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds...stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five : TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. "Jan. 10, 1776. "DEAR SIR, " I have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers....
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Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 pages
...years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds...thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-live : For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from ;hirty-five : He that ever hopes...
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