Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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Page 45
... Shall roll themselves afhore , and reach him there . The earth shall shake him out of all his holds , Or make his house his grave : nor fo content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dufty gulphs ...
... Shall roll themselves afhore , and reach him there . The earth shall shake him out of all his holds , Or make his house his grave : nor fo content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dufty gulphs ...
Page 48
... Shall be constrained to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year moft part deformed With dripping rains , or withered by a froft , I would not yet exchange thy fullen ikies , And fields without a flower , for warmer France ...
... Shall be constrained to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year moft part deformed With dripping rains , or withered by a froft , I would not yet exchange thy fullen ikies , And fields without a flower , for warmer France ...
Page 82
... shall never brand the wretch , Whom matrons now of character unfmirched , And chafte themselves , are not afhamed to own . Virtue and vice had boundaries in old time Not to be paffed : and the , that had renounced Her fex's honour , was ...
... shall never brand the wretch , Whom matrons now of character unfmirched , And chafte themselves , are not afhamed to own . Virtue and vice had boundaries in old time Not to be paffed : and the , that had renounced Her fex's honour , was ...
Page 107
... Shall break into its preconceived display , Each for itself , and all as with one voice Conspiring , may atteft his bright defign . Nor even then , difmiffing as performed His pleasant work , may he suppose it done . Few self ...
... Shall break into its preconceived display , Each for itself , and all as with one voice Conspiring , may atteft his bright defign . Nor even then , difmiffing as performed His pleasant work , may he suppose it done . Few self ...
Page 112
... shall have transformed Those naked acres to a fheltering grove . He speaks . The lake in front becomes a lawn ; Woods vanifh , hills fubfide , and vallies rife ; And streams , as if created for his use , Pursue the track of his ...
... shall have transformed Those naked acres to a fheltering grove . He speaks . The lake in front becomes a lawn ; Woods vanifh , hills fubfide , and vallies rife ; And streams , as if created for his use , Pursue the track of his ...
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