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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... Hope and Charity , and touch'd with awe The folemn chords , and with a trembling hand , Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight , Now feek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud Th ...
... Hope and Charity , and touch'd with awe The folemn chords , and with a trembling hand , Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight , Now feek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud Th ...
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... hope already there , Greets with three cheers exulting . At his waist A girdle of half - wither'd fhrubs he shows , And at his feet , the baffled billows die . The common overgrown with fern , and rough With prickly gofs , that ...
... hope already there , Greets with three cheers exulting . At his waist A girdle of half - wither'd fhrubs he shows , And at his feet , the baffled billows die . The common overgrown with fern , and rough With prickly gofs , that ...
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... hope no triumph there Beyond th ' atchievement of fuccessful flight . I do confefs them nurf'ries of the arts , In which they flourish most . Where in the beams Of warm encouragement , and in the eye Of public note they reach their ...
... hope no triumph there Beyond th ' atchievement of fuccessful flight . I do confefs them nurf'ries of the arts , In which they flourish most . Where in the beams Of warm encouragement , and in the eye Of public note they reach their ...
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... . Farewell those honors , and farewell with them The hope of fuch hereafter . They have fall'n Each in his field of glory : One in arms , And one in council . Wolfe upon the lap Of Of smiling victory that moment won , And Chatham , [ 57 ]
... . Farewell those honors , and farewell with them The hope of fuch hereafter . They have fall'n Each in his field of glory : One in arms , And one in council . Wolfe upon the lap Of Of smiling victory that moment won , And Chatham , [ 57 ]
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... hope Crack the fatyric thong ? ' twere wiser far For me enamour'd of fequefter'd fcenes , And charm'd with rural beauty , to repofe Where chance may throw me , beneath elm or vine , My languid limbs when fummer fears the plains , Or Or ...
... hope Crack the fatyric thong ? ' twere wiser far For me enamour'd of fequefter'd fcenes , And charm'd with rural beauty , to repofe Where chance may throw me , beneath elm or vine , My languid limbs when fummer fears the plains , Or Or ...
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