Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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... for use , Save their own painted skins , our fires had none . As yet black breeches were not ; satin smooth , VOL . II . * See Poems , vol . i . B Or velvet foft , or plufh with fhaggy pile : THE TASK, in Six Books The Sofa.
... for use , Save their own painted skins , our fires had none . As yet black breeches were not ; satin smooth , VOL . II . * See Poems , vol . i . B Or velvet foft , or plufh with fhaggy pile : THE TASK, in Six Books The Sofa.
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... fires Complained , though incommodiously pent in , And ill at eafe behind . The ladies first ' Gan murmur , as became the fofter sex . Ingenious fancy , never better pleased Than when employed to accommodate the fair , Heard the fweet ...
... fires Complained , though incommodiously pent in , And ill at eafe behind . The ladies first ' Gan murmur , as became the fofter sex . Ingenious fancy , never better pleased Than when employed to accommodate the fair , Heard the fweet ...
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... fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is winged with joy , And riots in the fweets of every breeze . He does not fcorn it , who has long endured A fever's agonies , and fed on drugs , Nor yet the mariner , his blood inflamed With ...
... fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is winged with joy , And riots in the fweets of every breeze . He does not fcorn it , who has long endured A fever's agonies , and fed on drugs , Nor yet the mariner , his blood inflamed With ...
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... Of brotherhood is fevered as the flax , That falls afunder at the touch of fire . He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not coloured like his own ; and having power To enforce the wrong , for such a worthy cause The Time-Piece.
... Of brotherhood is fevered as the flax , That falls afunder at the touch of fire . He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not coloured like his own ; and having power To enforce the wrong , for such a worthy cause The Time-Piece.
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... , deluging the dry ? Fires from beneath , and meteors † from above , * Alluding to the calamities in Jamaica . + Auguft 18 , 1783 . Portentous , unexampled , unexplained , Have kindled beacons in BOOK II . 41 THE TIME - PIECE .
... , deluging the dry ? Fires from beneath , and meteors † from above , * Alluding to the calamities in Jamaica . + Auguft 18 , 1783 . Portentous , unexampled , unexplained , Have kindled beacons in BOOK II . 41 THE TIME - PIECE .
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