The Works of the English Poets, 1–2. köideSamuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) H. Baldwin, 1779 - 315 pages |
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... lives , But legacies in blossom ? Our lean foil , Luxuriant grown , and rank in vanities , From friends interr'd beneath ; a rich manure ! Like other worms , we banquet on the dead ; Like other worms , fhall we crawl on , nor know Our ...
... lives , But legacies in blossom ? Our lean foil , Luxuriant grown , and rank in vanities , From friends interr'd beneath ; a rich manure ! Like other worms , we banquet on the dead ; Like other worms , fhall we crawl on , nor know Our ...
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... live ) He falls on his own scythe ; nor falls alone ; His greatest foe falls with him ; Time , and he Who murder'd all Time's offspring , Death , expire . 310 Time was ! Eternity now reigns alone ! Aweful Eternity ! offended queen ! And ...
... live ) He falls on his own scythe ; nor falls alone ; His greatest foe falls with him ; Time , and he Who murder'd all Time's offspring , Death , expire . 310 Time was ! Eternity now reigns alone ! Aweful Eternity ! offended queen ! And ...
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... lives in vanity , and dies in woe . Joy , amidst ills , corroborates , exalts ; ' Tis joy and conquest ; joy , and virtue too . A noble fortitude in ills , delights 5 Heaven , Heaven , earth , ourselves ; ' tis duty , 14 YOUNG'S POEMS .
... lives in vanity , and dies in woe . Joy , amidst ills , corroborates , exalts ; ' Tis joy and conquest ; joy , and virtue too . A noble fortitude in ills , delights 5 Heaven , Heaven , earth , ourselves ; ' tis duty , 14 YOUNG'S POEMS .
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... live . - 410 415 420 What spoke proud passion ? " With my being loft ? " Prefumptuous ! blafphemous ! abfurd ! and false ! The triumph of my foul is - That I am ; And therefore that I may be - what ? Lorenzo ! Look inward , and look ...
... live . - 410 415 420 What spoke proud passion ? " With my being loft ? " Prefumptuous ! blafphemous ! abfurd ! and false ! The triumph of my foul is - That I am ; And therefore that I may be - what ? Lorenzo ! Look inward , and look ...
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... lives . In Chriftian hearts , O for a Pagan zeal ! A needful , but opprobrious prayer ! as much Our Ardour Lefs , as Greater is our Light . How monftrous This in Morals ! Scarce more ftrange 995 ' Would this Ph¿nomenon in nature ftrike ...
... lives . In Chriftian hearts , O for a Pagan zeal ! A needful , but opprobrious prayer ! as much Our Ardour Lefs , as Greater is our Light . How monftrous This in Morals ! Scarce more ftrange 995 ' Would this Ph¿nomenon in nature ftrike ...
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