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Johnson, instead of rupibus obsita, had written imbribus uvida. and uvida nubibus, but struck them both out.
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Take, for instance, these lines of Horace: me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo, or these of Lucretius:
The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907
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In the manuscript, Dr. Johnson, instead of rupibus obsita, had written imbribus uvida, and uvida nubibus, but struck them both out.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Dr Johnson, instead of rupibus obsita, had written imbribus uvida. and uvida nubibus, but struck them both out.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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Miferi quibus Intentata nites* Me tabula facer Votiva paries indicat uvida SufpendifTe potenti 15
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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