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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... proves a school in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean felf - attachment , and scarce aught befide , Thus fare the shiv'ring natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world Where it advances far ...
... proves a school in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean felf - attachment , and scarce aught befide , Thus fare the shiv'ring natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world Where it advances far ...
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... proved Too weak for those decisive blows , that once Infured us maft'ry there , we yet retain Some small pre - eminence , we justly boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honors of the turf as all our own . Go then , well ...
... proved Too weak for those decisive blows , that once Infured us maft'ry there , we yet retain Some small pre - eminence , we justly boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honors of the turf as all our own . Go then , well ...
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... proved too weak To bind the roving appetite , and lead Blind nature to a God not yet reveal'd . " Tis Revelation fatisfies all doubts , Explains all myfteries , except her own , And fo illuminates the path of life , That fools difcover ...
... proved too weak To bind the roving appetite , and lead Blind nature to a God not yet reveal'd . " Tis Revelation fatisfies all doubts , Explains all myfteries , except her own , And fo illuminates the path of life , That fools difcover ...
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... neatly fitted , it compreffes hard The prominent and most unfightly bones , And binds the shoulders flat . We prove its use Sov'reign and most effectual to secure A form A form not now gymnastic as of yore , From [ 75 1 .
... neatly fitted , it compreffes hard The prominent and most unfightly bones , And binds the shoulders flat . We prove its use Sov'reign and most effectual to secure A form A form not now gymnastic as of yore , From [ 75 1 .
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... proves at laft A fenfeless bargain . When I fee fuch games Play'd by the creatures of a pow'r who fwears That he ... prove it in th ' infallible refult So hollow and fo falfe - I feel my heart Diffolve in pity , and account the learn ...
... proves at laft A fenfeless bargain . When I fee fuch games Play'd by the creatures of a pow'r who fwears That he ... prove it in th ' infallible refult So hollow and fo falfe - I feel my heart Diffolve in pity , and account the learn ...
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