Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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... of man , that even a few Few tranfient years , won from the abyss abhorred Of blank oblivion , seem a glorious prize , And even to a clown . Now roves the eye ; And pofted on this speculative height , Exults in its BOOK 1 . 13 THE SOFA .
... of man , that even a few Few tranfient years , won from the abyss abhorred Of blank oblivion , seem a glorious prize , And even to a clown . Now roves the eye ; And pofted on this speculative height , Exults in its BOOK 1 . 13 THE SOFA .
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... Seems funk , and fhortened to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler fome , And of a wannifh gray ; the willow fuch , And poplar , that with filver lines his leaf , And ...
... Seems funk , and fhortened to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler fome , And of a wannifh gray ; the willow fuch , And poplar , that with filver lines his leaf , And ...
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... seems to fwing uncertain , and yet falls Full on the destined ear . Wide flies the chaff , The ruffling straw fends up a frequent mist Of atoms , sparkling in the noon- -day beam . Come hither , ye that press your beds of down , And ...
... seems to fwing uncertain , and yet falls Full on the destined ear . Wide flies the chaff , The ruffling straw fends up a frequent mist Of atoms , sparkling in the noon- -day beam . Come hither , ye that press your beds of down , And ...
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... seems To toll the death - bell of its own decease , And by the voice of all its elements To preach the general doom * . winds When were the Let flip with fuch a warrant to destroy ? When did the waves fo haughtily overleap Their ancient ...
... seems To toll the death - bell of its own decease , And by the voice of all its elements To preach the general doom * . winds When were the Let flip with fuch a warrant to destroy ? When did the waves fo haughtily overleap Their ancient ...
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... Seems in their eyes a mercy for thy fake . Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven , that it burns down to earth , And in the furious inqueft , that it makes On God's behalf , lays wafte his fairest works . The ...
... Seems in their eyes a mercy for thy fake . Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven , that it burns down to earth , And in the furious inqueft , that it makes On God's behalf , lays wafte his fairest works . The ...
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