The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 39. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... delights thy fifter Nature yields ; Sing of thy vales , fing of thy woods , fing of thy fields ; Go publish o'er the plain How mighty a profelyte you gain ! How noble a reprisal on the great How is the Mufe luxuriant grown ! Whene'er he ...
... delights thy fifter Nature yields ; Sing of thy vales , fing of thy woods , fing of thy fields ; Go publish o'er the plain How mighty a profelyte you gain ! How noble a reprisal on the great How is the Mufe luxuriant grown ! Whene'er he ...
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... delightful ftrand , Then straight she fees the country all around , Where fatal Neptune rul'd erewhile , Scatter'd with flowery vales , with fruitful gardens crown'd , And many a pleasant wood ! As if the univerfal Nile Had rather water ...
... delightful ftrand , Then straight she fees the country all around , Where fatal Neptune rul'd erewhile , Scatter'd with flowery vales , with fruitful gardens crown'd , And many a pleasant wood ! As if the univerfal Nile Had rather water ...
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... delightful scene Is wonderfully mov'd by fome exalted men , Who have well ftudied in the world's disease ( That epidemic error and depravity , Or in our judgement or our eye ) , That what furprizes us can only please . We often fearch ...
... delightful scene Is wonderfully mov'd by fome exalted men , Who have well ftudied in the world's disease ( That epidemic error and depravity , Or in our judgement or our eye ) , That what furprizes us can only please . We often fearch ...
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... delight observ'd them all Raking up mud to build a wall . The plan he much admir'd , and took The model in his table - book ; Thought himself now exactly fkill'd , And fo refolv'd a boufe to build ; A real boufe , with rooms , and fairs ...
... delight observ'd them all Raking up mud to build a wall . The plan he much admir'd , and took The model in his table - book ; Thought himself now exactly fkill'd , And fo refolv'd a boufe to build ; A real boufe , with rooms , and fairs ...
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... delight . I have in store a pint or two of wine , Some cracknels , and the remnant of a chine . And now on either fide , and all around , The weighty shop - boards fall , and bars refound ; Each ready femftrefs flips her pattins on ...
... delight . I have in store a pint or two of wine , Some cracknels , and the remnant of a chine . And now on either fide , and all around , The weighty shop - boards fall , and bars refound ; Each ready femftrefs flips her pattins on ...
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