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Page 11
Tell them , I AM , Jehovah said To Moses : while Earth heard in dread , And ,
smitten to the heart , At once , above , beneath , around , All Nature , without
voice , or sound , Replied , “ O Lord , THOU ART . ” In the same year he
published a ...
Tell them , I AM , Jehovah said To Moses : while Earth heard in dread , And ,
smitten to the heart , At once , above , beneath , around , All Nature , without
voice , or sound , Replied , “ O Lord , THOU ART . ” In the same year he
published a ...
Page 17
... Nature's early birth , Hear'n sent a man upon the Earth , Ev'n Eden was more
fruitful found , When Adam came to till the ground : Shall then those breasts be
fair in vain , And only rise to fall again ? No , no , fair nymph — for no such end
Did ...
... Nature's early birth , Hear'n sent a man upon the Earth , Ev'n Eden was more
fruitful found , When Adam came to till the ground : Shall then those breasts be
fair in vain , And only rise to fall again ? No , no , fair nymph — for no such end
Did ...
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A day shall come when all this Earth shall peEdm . Keene , vice - chancellor . rish
, J. Wilcox , master of Clare - Hall . Nor leave behind ev'n Chaos ; it shall come
March 25 , 1750 . When all the armies of the elements Shall war against ...
A day shall come when all this Earth shall peEdm . Keene , vice - chancellor . rish
, J. Wilcox , master of Clare - Hall . Nor leave behind ev'n Chaos ; it shall come
March 25 , 1750 . When all the armies of the elements Shall war against ...
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But tho ' the Earth shall to the centre perish , Nor leave behind ev'n Chaos ; tho '
the air I give my Kislingbury estate to the university With all the elements must
pass away , of Cambridge for ever : the rents of which shall Vain as an ideut's ...
But tho ' the Earth shall to the centre perish , Nor leave behind ev'n Chaos ; tho '
the air I give my Kislingbury estate to the university With all the elements must
pass away , of Cambridge for ever : the rents of which shall Vain as an ideut's ...
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By sudden sickness , at his master's feet To rive the groaning earth for ill - sought
gold , Begs not that aid his services might claim , Endures such trouble , such
fatigue , as she ; But is his own physician , knows the case , While all her ...
By sudden sickness , at his master's feet To rive the groaning earth for ill - sought
gold , Begs not that aid his services might claim , Endures such trouble , such
fatigue , as she ; But is his own physician , knows the case , While all her ...
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Page 80 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 495 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 97 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
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Page 495 - Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
Page 495 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 495 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
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| Title | Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson 16. köide of The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Alexander Chalmers 16. köide of Works of the English poets from Chaucer to Cowper : in twenty-one volumes / S. Johnson; Alexander Chalmers |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Alexander Chalmers |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1810 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 jaan. 2008 |
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