Poems, Volumen1T. Johnston, 1803 - 348 páginas |
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... minds Begets its likeness . Rank abundance breeds In grofs and pamper'd cities floth and lust , And wantonnefs and gluttonous excess . In cities vice is hidden with most ease , Or feen with leaft reproach ; and virtue , taught By ...
... minds Begets its likeness . Rank abundance breeds In grofs and pamper'd cities floth and lust , And wantonnefs and gluttonous excess . In cities vice is hidden with most ease , Or feen with leaft reproach ; and virtue , taught By ...
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... fedans , know no fatigue But that of idlenefs , and taste no scenes But fuch as art contrives , poffefs ye ftill Your element ; there only can ye shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . BOOK I. 31 THE SOFA .
... fedans , know no fatigue But that of idlenefs , and taste no scenes But fuch as art contrives , poffefs ye ftill Your element ; there only can ye shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . BOOK I. 31 THE SOFA .
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William Cowper. There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to confole at noon The penfive wand'rer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , fliding foftly in between The fleeping leaves , is all the light they ...
William Cowper. There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to confole at noon The penfive wand'rer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , fliding foftly in between The fleeping leaves , is all the light they ...
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... minds and manners may be found , Shall be constrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year moft part deform'd With dripping rains , or wither'd by a froft , I would not yet exchange thy fullen skies , And BOOK 11 ...
... minds and manners may be found , Shall be constrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year moft part deform'd With dripping rains , or wither'd by a froft , I would not yet exchange thy fullen skies , And BOOK 11 ...
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... preceptors , who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , Th ' expedients and inventions , multiform , To which the mind reforts in chace of terms , 46 BOOK II . THE TASK .
... preceptors , who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , Th ' expedients and inventions , multiform , To which the mind reforts in chace of terms , 46 BOOK II . THE TASK .
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Página 36 - 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 309 - 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...
Página 303 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband 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 297 - I cried, Shall hear of this thy deed: My dog shall mortify the pride Of man's superior breed: But chief myself I will enjoin, Awake at duty's call, To show a love as prompt as thine To Him who gives me all.
Página 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...
Página 301 - 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.
Página 312 - My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin...
Página 344 - Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant for which we toil?
Página 305 - Where they did all get in, Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. Smack went the whip, round went the wheels, Were never folk so glad ; The stones did rattle underneath As if Cheapside were mad.
Página 304 - He soon replied, I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. • I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.