Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 páginas |
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... wonder then that health and virtue , gifts , That can alone make sweet the bitter draught , That life holds out to all , fhould most abound And leaft be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who , borne about ...
... wonder then that health and virtue , gifts , That can alone make sweet the bitter draught , That life holds out to all , fhould most abound And leaft be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who , borne about ...
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... wonder if , difcharged into the world , They fhame their fhooters with a random flight , Their points obtufe , and feathers drunk with wine ! Well may the church wage unsuccessful war With fuch artillery armed . Vice parries wide The ...
... wonder if , difcharged into the world , They fhame their fhooters with a random flight , Their points obtufe , and feathers drunk with wine ! Well may the church wage unsuccessful war With fuch artillery armed . Vice parries wide The ...
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... wonder if , difcharged into the world , They fhame their fhooters with a random flight , Their points obtufe , and feathers drunk with wine ! Well may the church wage unfuccefsful war With fuch artillery armed . Vice parries wide The ...
... wonder if , difcharged into the world , They fhame their fhooters with a random flight , Their points obtufe , and feathers drunk with wine ! Well may the church wage unfuccefsful war With fuch artillery armed . Vice parries wide The ...
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... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unfufpicious nights , And flumbers unalarmed ! Now , ere you fleep , See that your polished arms be primed with care , And drop the night - bolt ...
... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unfufpicious nights , And flumbers unalarmed ! Now , ere you fleep , See that your polished arms be primed with care , And drop the night - bolt ...
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... an age . As twice feven years , his beauties had then first Engaged my wonder ; and admiring ftill ,. And still admiring , with regret supposed- The joy half loft because not sooner found . There BOOK IV 149 THE WINTER EVENING .
... an age . As twice feven years , his beauties had then first Engaged my wonder ; and admiring ftill ,. And still admiring , with regret supposed- The joy half loft because not sooner found . There BOOK IV 149 THE WINTER EVENING .
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Página 236 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Página 121 - 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 41 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Página 121 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb, And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots, bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and smiles.
Página 159 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Página 89 - In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Página 48 - Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use, and ready at his will...
Página 224 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Página 330 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Página 189 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.