Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... last . The nurse fleeps sweetly , hir'd to watch the fick , Whom fnoring she disturbs . As sweetly he Who quits the coach - box at the midnight hour To fleep within the carriage more fecure , His legs depending at the open door . Sweet ...
... last . The nurse fleeps sweetly , hir'd to watch the fick , Whom fnoring she disturbs . As sweetly he Who quits the coach - box at the midnight hour To fleep within the carriage more fecure , His legs depending at the open door . Sweet ...
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... last cruft confum'd . So farewell envy of the peasant's neft ! If folitude make scant the means of life , Society for me ! -thou seeming fweet , Be ftill a pleafing object in my view ; My vifit ftill , but never mine abode . Not diftant ...
... last cruft confum'd . So farewell envy of the peasant's neft ! If folitude make scant the means of life , Society for me ! -thou seeming fweet , Be ftill a pleafing object in my view ; My vifit ftill , but never mine abode . Not diftant ...
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... last to liberty and light : His cheek recovers foon its healthful hue ; His eye relumines its extinguish'd fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is wing'd with joy , And riots in the fweets of ev'ry breeze . He does not scorn it , who ...
... last to liberty and light : His cheek recovers foon its healthful hue ; His eye relumines its extinguish'd fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is wing'd with joy , And riots in the fweets of ev'ry breeze . He does not scorn it , who ...
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... last the dull and dufky eve , And fends thee to thy cabin , well - prepar'd To dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good , Difinterested good , is not our ...
... last the dull and dufky eve , And fends thee to thy cabin , well - prepar'd To dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good , Difinterested good , is not our ...
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... last , Strutting and vap'ring in an empty school , Spent all his force and made nó profelyte ) - I fay the pulpit ( in the fober use Of its legitimate , peculiar pow'rs ) Must stand acknowledg'd , while the world shall stand , The most ...
... last , Strutting and vap'ring in an empty school , Spent all his force and made nó profelyte ) - I fay the pulpit ( in the fober use Of its legitimate , peculiar pow'rs ) Must stand acknowledg'd , while the world shall stand , The most ...
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Page 303 - And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brushed and neat, He manfully did throw.