“He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
The Life of Dryden
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“Upon the brink of the wild stream
He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.”
Original: (ru) На берегу пустынных волн Стоял он, дум великих полн.
Source: The Bronze Horseman (1833) trans. Charles Johnston.
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He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream." by Aleksandr Pushkin?
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