The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, 33. köide1790 |
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... muft end ) ; Say , what did all thy busy hopes avail , That anxious thou from pole to pole didst fail , on thy chin the springing beard began Ere To fpread a doubtful down , and promise man ? What profited thy thoughts , and toils , and ...
... muft end ) ; Say , what did all thy busy hopes avail , That anxious thou from pole to pole didst fail , on thy chin the springing beard began Ere To fpread a doubtful down , and promise man ? What profited thy thoughts , and toils , and ...
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... muft every state and every age Sustain the universal tyrant's rage : Holben's For neither William's power , nor Mary's charms , Could or repel or pacify his arms . Young Churchill fell , as life began to bloom ; And Bradford's trembling ...
... muft every state and every age Sustain the universal tyrant's rage : Holben's For neither William's power , nor Mary's charms , Could or repel or pacify his arms . Young Churchill fell , as life began to bloom ; And Bradford's trembling ...
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... muft mourn , With fatal speed was urging his return ; In his dear country , to disperse his care , And arm himself by reft for future war ; To chide his anxious friends officious fears , And promife to their joys his elder years : B 3 ...
... muft mourn , With fatal speed was urging his return ; In his dear country , to disperse his care , And arm himself by reft for future war ; To chide his anxious friends officious fears , And promife to their joys his elder years : B 3 ...
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... Muft of a man immortal vainly boast , And bring him laurels , whatsoe'er they coft : What turn wilt thou employ , what colours lay On the event of that fuperior day , In which one English fubject's profperous hand ( So Jove did will ...
... Muft of a man immortal vainly boast , And bring him laurels , whatsoe'er they coft : What turn wilt thou employ , what colours lay On the event of that fuperior day , In which one English fubject's profperous hand ( So Jove did will ...
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... muft weep fad captives to the Seine , Unless unchain'd and freed by Britain's queen . The valiant fovereign calls her general forth ; Neither recites her bounty , nor his worth : She tells him , he muft Europe's fate redeem , And by ...
... muft weep fad captives to the Seine , Unless unchain'd and freed by Britain's queen . The valiant fovereign calls her general forth ; Neither recites her bounty , nor his worth : She tells him , he muft Europe's fate redeem , And by ...
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Page 238 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 238 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
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Page 210 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 210 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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Page 136 - So whilst our mind its knowledge would improve, (Its feeble eye intent on things above) High as we may, we lift our reason up, By Faith directed, and confirm'd by Hope: Yet are we able only to survey Dawnings of beams, and promises of day.
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Page 50 - What is our bliss that changeth with the moon ; And day of life, that darkens ere 'tis noon ? What is true passion, if unblest it dies ? And where is Emma's joy if Henry flies ? If love, alas ! be pain, the pain I bear No thought can figure, and no tongue declare. Ne'er faithful woman felt, nor...