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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DR. JOHNSON, by SOAME JENYNS Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies poor johnson. Reader! Have a care
Last Line: Will tell you how he wrote, and talked, and spit.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
First Line: Here lies poor johnson. Reader! Have a care
Last Line: Will tell you how he wrote, and talked, and spit.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Here lies poor Johnson. Reader! have a care,
Tread lightly, lest you rouse a sleeping bear.
Religious, moral, generous and humane,
He was, but self-conceited, rude and vain:
Ill-bred, and overbearing in dispute,
A scholar and a Christian, yet a brute.
Would you know all his wisdom and his folly,
His actions, sayings, mirth, and melancholy,
Boswell and Thrale, retailers of his wit,
Will tell you how he wrote, and talked, and spit.
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