The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... stream Of light ; beholds his unrelenting fway Bend the reluctant planets to absolve The fated rounds of time . Thence far effus'd She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious comets ; through its burning figns Exulting ...
... stream Of light ; beholds his unrelenting fway Bend the reluctant planets to absolve The fated rounds of time . Thence far effus'd She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious comets ; through its burning figns Exulting ...
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... friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others woes ? 500 505 Or Or the mild majefty of private life , Where peace PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION , Book I. 29.
... friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for others woes ? 500 505 Or Or the mild majefty of private life , Where peace PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION , Book I. 29.
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... stream . Aloft recumbent o'er the hanging ridge , 275 280 The brown woods wav'd ; while ever - trickling fprings Wash'd from the naked roots of oak and pine The crumbling foil ; and still at every fall Down the fteep windings of the ...
... stream . Aloft recumbent o'er the hanging ridge , 275 280 The brown woods wav'd ; while ever - trickling fprings Wash'd from the naked roots of oak and pine The crumbling foil ; and still at every fall Down the fteep windings of the ...
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... stream Devolves its winding waters to the main So all things which have life afpire to God , The fun of being , boundlefs , unimpair'd , Centre of fouls ! Nor does the faithful voice Of nature ceafe to prompt their eager steps Aright ...
... stream Devolves its winding waters to the main So all things which have life afpire to God , The fun of being , boundlefs , unimpair'd , Centre of fouls ! Nor does the faithful voice Of nature ceafe to prompt their eager steps Aright ...
Page 66
... streams To cheer the barren foil and spread the fruits Of joy , let him by juster measures fix The price of riches and the end of power . Another tribe fucceeds ; deluded long 145 150 By Fancy's dazzling optics , thefe behold The images ...
... streams To cheer the barren foil and spread the fruits Of joy , let him by juster measures fix The price of riches and the end of power . Another tribe fucceeds ; deluded long 145 150 By Fancy's dazzling optics , thefe behold The images ...
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