Poems, Volumen2J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... cause , From ftrenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The fedentary stretch their lazy length When custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , fhrunk ...
... cause , From ftrenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The fedentary stretch their lazy length When custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , fhrunk ...
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... cause For fuch immeafurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet fimiles , and bloom lefs tranfient than her own . It is the conftant revolution , ftale And tastelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and ...
... cause For fuch immeafurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet fimiles , and bloom lefs tranfient than her own . It is the conftant revolution , ftale And tastelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and ...
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... cause , * Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , Ör else vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to show thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of ...
... cause , * Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , Ör else vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to show thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of ...
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... cause Sufpend th ' effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than a capacious refervoir of means Form'd for his ...
... cause Sufpend th ' effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than a capacious refervoir of means Form'd for his ...
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... cause . There stands the meffenger of truth . There stands The legate of the skies . His theme divine , His office facred , his credentials clear . By him , the violated law speaks out Its thunders 8 By 62 Book ii . THE TASK .
... cause . There stands the meffenger of truth . There stands The legate of the skies . His theme divine , His office facred , his credentials clear . By him , the violated law speaks out Its thunders 8 By 62 Book ii . THE TASK .
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Página 47 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Página 348 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Página 354 - Ah luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear, For while he spake a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear. Whereat his horse did snort as he Had heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might As he had done before.
Página 271 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us ! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Página 218 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Página 40 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Página 101 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Página 19 - Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives.
Página 139 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 137 - tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...