Poems, Volumen2J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... Please daily , and whofe novelty furvives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years . Praife juftly due to those that I describe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural founds , Exhilarate the fpirit , and restore The tone of languid Nature ...
... Please daily , and whofe novelty furvives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years . Praife juftly due to those that I describe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural founds , Exhilarate the fpirit , and restore The tone of languid Nature ...
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... please the eye - sweet Nature ev'ry sense . The air falubrious of her lofty hills , The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales , And mufic of her woods - no works of man May rival thefe ; thefe all befpeak a pow'r Peculiar , and ...
... please the eye - sweet Nature ev'ry sense . The air falubrious of her lofty hills , The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales , And mufic of her woods - no works of man May rival thefe ; thefe all befpeak a pow'r Peculiar , and ...
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... intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce awhile , Not senseless of its charms , what fill we love , That fuch short abfence may endear it more . Then forefts , or the favage rock , may please BOOK I. 23 THE SOFA .
... intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce awhile , Not senseless of its charms , what fill we love , That fuch short abfence may endear it more . Then forefts , or the favage rock , may please BOOK I. 23 THE SOFA .
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William Cowper. Then forefts , or the favage rock , may please , That hides the fea - mew in his hollow clefts Above the reach of man . His hoary head , Confpicuous many a league , the mariner , Bound homeward , and in hope already there ...
William Cowper. Then forefts , or the favage rock , may please , That hides the fea - mew in his hollow clefts Above the reach of man . His hoary head , Confpicuous many a league , the mariner , Bound homeward , and in hope already there ...
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... please , the less , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them , Tremble and be amaz'd at thine escape , Far guiltier England , left he spare not thee ! Happy the man who fees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that chequer ...
... please , the less , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them , Tremble and be amaz'd at thine escape , Far guiltier England , left he spare not thee ! Happy the man who fees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that chequer ...
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Página 327 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Página 40 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 119 - tis the twanging horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...
Página 335 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Página 40 - As human Nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Página 41 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Página 34 - 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 threaten'd in the fields and groves?
Página 56 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own — Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design.
Página 189 - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So...
Página 333 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...