Poems, Том 2J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... hand , Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight , Now feek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud Th ' occafion - for the Fair commands the fong . ш Time was , when cloathing fumptuous or for ...
... hand , Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight , Now feek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud Th ' occafion - for the Fair commands the fong . ш Time was , when cloathing fumptuous or for ...
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... hand . Lovely indeed the mimic works of art , But Nature's works far lovelier . I admire- None more admires the painter's magic skill , Who fhews me that which I shall never fee , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws Italian ...
... hand . Lovely indeed the mimic works of art , But Nature's works far lovelier . I admire- None more admires the painter's magic skill , Who fhews me that which I shall never fee , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws Italian ...
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... they tread . The paralytic , who can hold her cards , But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand To deal and shuffle , to divide and fort Her Her mingled fuits and fequences , and fits Spectatrefs both Book i . 25 THE SOFA .
... they tread . The paralytic , who can hold her cards , But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand To deal and shuffle , to divide and fort Her Her mingled fuits and fequences , and fits Spectatrefs both Book i . 25 THE SOFA .
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... hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper foil ; Not rude and furly , and befet with thorns , And terrible to fight , as when she springs ( If e'er fhe spring spontaneous ) in remote And barb'rous climes , where violence prevails ...
... hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper foil ; Not rude and furly , and befet with thorns , And terrible to fight , as when she springs ( If e'er fhe spring spontaneous ) in remote And barb'rous climes , where violence prevails ...
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... hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful caufe ? Time was when it was praife and boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill th ' ambition of a private man ...
... hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful caufe ? Time was when it was praife and boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill th ' ambition of a private man ...
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