Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1805 |
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Page iv
... praise , but censured.- Fete champetre . The book concludes with a reflec- tion on the fatal effects of dissipation and effeminacy upon our public measures . PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME . WHEN an Author , ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST BOOK .
... praise , but censured.- Fete champetre . The book concludes with a reflec- tion on the fatal effects of dissipation and effeminacy upon our public measures . PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME . WHEN an Author , ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST BOOK .
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... praise of nature moft fincere , And that my raptures are not conjured up To serve occafions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of them all . How oft upon yon eminence our pace Has flackened to a pause , and we have borne The ...
... praise of nature moft fincere , And that my raptures are not conjured up To serve occafions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of them all . How oft upon yon eminence our pace Has flackened to a pause , and we have borne The ...
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... Praise justly due to those that defcribe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural founds , Exhilarate the fspirit , and restore The tone of languid Nature . Mighty winds , That sweep the skirt of fome far - fpreading wood Of ancient growth ...
... Praise justly due to those that defcribe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural founds , Exhilarate the fspirit , and restore The tone of languid Nature . Mighty winds , That sweep the skirt of fome far - fpreading wood Of ancient growth ...
Page 44
... we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man , That Chatham's language was his mother tongue , And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own . Farewell 44 BOOK II . THE TASK .
... we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man , That Chatham's language was his mother tongue , And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own . Farewell 44 BOOK II . THE TASK .
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... praise ye feek , And show the shame , ye might conceal at home , In foreign eyes ! -be grooms and win the plate , Where once your nobler fathers won a crown ! - ' Tis generous to communicate your skill To thofe that need it . Folly is ...
... praise ye feek , And show the shame , ye might conceal at home , In foreign eyes ! -be grooms and win the plate , Where once your nobler fathers won a crown ! - ' Tis generous to communicate your skill To thofe that need it . Folly is ...
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Page 296 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 297 - Wouldst softly speak and stroke my head and smile — Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here? I would not trust my heart : the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
Page 206 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 37 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 214 - To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. All creatures worship man, and all mankind One Lord, one Father.
Page 31 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Page 214 - Behold the measure of the promise fill'd ; See Salem built, the labour of a God ! Bright as a sun the sacred city shines ; All kingdoms and all princes of the earth Flock to that light ; the glory of all lands Flows into her ; unbounded is her joy, . And endless her increase.
Page 206 - Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die : A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime...
Page 309 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Page 296 - Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot; But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot.