Poems: The task, a poem, ... to which are added, by the same author, an Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and the History of John Gilpin. 2J. Johnson, 1785 |
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Page 25
... cause For fuch immeafurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet fmiles and bloom lefs tranfient than her own . It is the conftant revolution stale And tasteless , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and ...
... cause For fuch immeafurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet fmiles and bloom lefs tranfient than her own . It is the conftant revolution stale And tasteless , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and ...
Page 43
... causes , reproved . - Our own late mifcarriages accounted for . - Satyrical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau - But the pulpit , not fatire , the proper engine of reformation . - The Reverend Advertiser of engraved fermons ...
... causes , reproved . - Our own late mifcarriages accounted for . - Satyrical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau - But the pulpit , not fatire , the proper engine of reformation . - The Reverend Advertiser of engraved fermons ...
Page 46
... cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey . Lands interfected by a narrow frith Abhor each other . Mountains interpofed , Make enemies of nations who had elfe Like kindred drops been mingled into one . Thus man devotes his brother ...
... cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey . Lands interfected by a narrow frith Abhor each other . Mountains interpofed , Make enemies of nations who had elfe Like kindred drops been mingled into one . Thus man devotes his brother ...
Page 55
... causes how they work By neceffary laws their fure effects , Of action and re - action . He has found The fource of the disease that nature feels , And bids the world take heart and banish fear . Thou fool ! will thy difcov'ry of the cause ...
... causes how they work By neceffary laws their fure effects , Of action and re - action . He has found The fource of the disease that nature feels , And bids the world take heart and banish fear . Thou fool ! will thy difcov'ry of the cause ...
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... cause . To fuch I render more than mere refpect , Whose actions say that they refpect themselves . But loose in morals , and in manners vain , In converfation frivolous , in drefs Extreme , at once In [ 64 ] And emphasis in fcore, and ...
... cause . To fuch I render more than mere refpect , Whose actions say that they refpect themselves . But loose in morals , and in manners vain , In converfation frivolous , in drefs Extreme , at once In [ 64 ] And emphasis in fcore, and ...
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