Poems, Том 2J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... fair May yet be foul ; fo witty , yet not wife . It is not feemly , nor of good report , That she is flack in difcipline ; more prompt T ' avenge than to prevent the breach of law : That the is rigid in denouncing death On petty robbers ...
... fair May yet be foul ; fo witty , yet not wife . It is not feemly , nor of good report , That she is flack in difcipline ; more prompt T ' avenge than to prevent the breach of law : That the is rigid in denouncing death On petty robbers ...
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... fair form , And just proportion , fashionable mien , And pretty face , in presence of his God ? Or will he feek to dazzle me with tropes , As with the di'mond on his lily hand , And play his brilliant parts before my eyes , When I am ...
... fair form , And just proportion , fashionable mien , And pretty face , in presence of his God ? Or will he feek to dazzle me with tropes , As with the di'mond on his lily hand , And play his brilliant parts before my eyes , When I am ...
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... fair.- Now this is fulfome ; and offends me more Than in a churchman flovenly neglect And ruftic coarseness would . An heav'nly mind May be indiff'rent to her house of clay , And flight the hovel as beneath her care ; But how a body fo ...
... fair.- Now this is fulfome ; and offends me more Than in a churchman flovenly neglect And ruftic coarseness would . An heav'nly mind May be indiff'rent to her house of clay , And flight the hovel as beneath her care ; But how a body fo ...
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... fair reversion with keen eye ; Finds one ill made , another obsolete , This fits not nicely , that is ill conceiv'd ; And , making prize of all that he condemns , With our expenditure defrays his own . Variety's the very fpice of life ...
... fair reversion with keen eye ; Finds one ill made , another obsolete , This fits not nicely , that is ill conceiv'd ; And , making prize of all that he condemns , With our expenditure defrays his own . Variety's the very fpice of life ...
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... fair renown ! Till prostitution elbows us afide In all our crowded ftreets ; and fenates feem Conven'd for purposes of empire lefs Than to release th ' adultress from her bond . VOL . II . E Th ' adultrefs ! what a theme for angry verfe ...
... fair renown ! Till prostitution elbows us afide In all our crowded ftreets ; and fenates feem Conven'd for purposes of empire lefs Than to release th ' adultress from her bond . VOL . II . E Th ' adultrefs ! what a theme for angry verfe ...
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