Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... these supplied Of texture firm a lattice - work , that brac'd The new machine , and it became a chair . But restless was the chair ; the back erect Diftrefs'd the weary loins , that felt no ease ; The flipp'ry feat betray'd the fliding ...
... these supplied Of texture firm a lattice - work , that brac'd The new machine , and it became a chair . But restless was the chair ; the back erect Diftrefs'd the weary loins , that felt no ease ; The flipp'ry feat betray'd the fliding ...
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... These chefnuts rang'd in correfponding lines ; And , though himself so polish'd , still reprieves The obfolete prolixity of fhade . John Courtney Throckmorton , Efq . of Wefton Underwood . Defcending now ( but cautious , left too faft ) ...
... These chefnuts rang'd in correfponding lines ; And , though himself so polish'd , still reprieves The obfolete prolixity of fhade . John Courtney Throckmorton , Efq . of Wefton Underwood . Defcending now ( but cautious , left too faft ) ...
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... These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet fmiles , and bloom lefs tranfient than her own . It is the conftant revolution , ftale And taftelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and fatiates , and makes languid life A ...
... These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet fmiles , and bloom lefs tranfient than her own . It is the conftant revolution , ftale And taftelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and fatiates , and makes languid life A ...
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... These speak a loud memento . Yet ev'n these Themselves love life , and cling to it , as he That overhangs a torrent to a twig . They love it , and yet loath it ; fear to die , Yet fcorn the purposes for which they live . Then wherefore ...
... These speak a loud memento . Yet ev'n these Themselves love life , and cling to it , as he That overhangs a torrent to a twig . They love it , and yet loath it ; fear to die , Yet fcorn the purposes for which they live . Then wherefore ...
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... These therefore I can pity , plac'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration teaches ; and enclosed : In boundless oceans , never to be pass'd By navigators uninform'd as they , Or plough'd perhaps by British ...
... These therefore I can pity , plac'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration teaches ; and enclosed : In boundless oceans , never to be pass'd By navigators uninform'd as they , Or plough'd perhaps by British ...
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Page 327 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Page 40 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 119 - tis the twanging horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...
Page 335 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Page 40 - As human Nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Page 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.
Page 34 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves?
Page 56 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own — Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design.
Page 189 - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So...
Page 333 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...