The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 55–56. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... awful throne a wondering ear , And fmiles : the paffions , gently footh'd away , Sink to divine repofe , and love and joy Alone are waking ; love and joy , ferene As airs that fan the fummer . O ! attend , Whoe'er thou art , whom these ...
... awful throne a wondering ear , And fmiles : the paffions , gently footh'd away , Sink to divine repofe , and love and joy Alone are waking ; love and joy , ferene As airs that fan the fummer . O ! attend , Whoe'er thou art , whom these ...
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... awful task , To learn the lore of undeceitful good , And truth eternal . Though the poisonous charms Of baleful fuperftition guide the feet Of fervile numbers , through a dreary way 390 To their abode , through defarts , thorns , and ...
... awful task , To learn the lore of undeceitful good , And truth eternal . Though the poisonous charms Of baleful fuperftition guide the feet Of fervile numbers , through a dreary way 390 To their abode , through defarts , thorns , and ...
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... awful depth Of truth's mysterious bofom , doth forfake The unadorn'd condition of her birth ; And drefs'd by fancy in ten thousand hues , Affumes a various feature , to attract , With charms refponfive to each gazer's eye , The hearts ...
... awful depth Of truth's mysterious bofom , doth forfake The unadorn'd condition of her birth ; And drefs'd by fancy in ten thousand hues , Affumes a various feature , to attract , With charms refponfive to each gazer's eye , The hearts ...
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... awful light difcloses , to beftow 95 A more majeftic pomp on Beauty's frame ? For man loves knowledge , and the beams of Truth 100 More welcome touch his understanding's eye , Than all the blandishments of found his ear , Than all of ...
... awful light difcloses , to beftow 95 A more majeftic pomp on Beauty's frame ? For man loves knowledge , and the beams of Truth 100 More welcome touch his understanding's eye , Than all the blandishments of found his ear , Than all of ...
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... awful tale began . ' Twas in the windings of an ancient wood , When spotless youth with solitude refigns To fweet philofophy the ftudious day , What time pale autumn fhades the filent eve , Mufing I rov'd . Of good and evil much , And ...
... awful tale began . ' Twas in the windings of an ancient wood , When spotless youth with solitude refigns To fweet philofophy the ftudious day , What time pale autumn fhades the filent eve , Mufing I rov'd . Of good and evil much , And ...
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