Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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Page 28
... proves a school , in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean felf - attachment , and scarce aught befide . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world , Where it advances ...
... proves a school , in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean felf - attachment , and scarce aught befide . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world , Where it advances ...
Page 51
... proved Too weak for thofe decifive blows , that once Enfured us maftery there , we yet retain Some small pre - eminence ; we justly boast At least fuperior jockeyship , and claim The honours of the turf as all our own ! Go then , well ...
... proved Too weak for thofe decifive blows , that once Enfured us maftery there , we yet retain Some small pre - eminence ; we justly boast At least fuperior jockeyship , and claim The honours of the turf as all our own ! Go then , well ...
Page 62
... proved too weak To bind the roving appetite , and lead Blind nature to a God not yet revealed . ' Tis revelation fatisfies all doubts , Explains all myfteries , except her own , And fo illuminates the path of life , That fools difcover ...
... proved too weak To bind the roving appetite , and lead Blind nature to a God not yet revealed . ' Tis revelation fatisfies all doubts , Explains all myfteries , except her own , And fo illuminates the path of life , That fools difcover ...
Page 65
... prove its use Sovereign and most effectual to fecure A form , not now gymnastic as of yore , From rickets and diftortion , else our lot . But thus admonished , we can walk erect- One proof at least of manhood ! while the friend Sticks ...
... prove its use Sovereign and most effectual to fecure A form , not now gymnastic as of yore , From rickets and diftortion , else our lot . But thus admonished , we can walk erect- One proof at least of manhood ! while the friend Sticks ...
Page 86
... proves at last A fenfeless bargain . When I fee fuch games Played by the creatures of a power , who fwears That he will judge the earth , and call the fool To a ... prove it in the infallible refult heart So hollow 86 BOOK III . THE TASK .
... proves at last A fenfeless bargain . When I fee fuch games Played by the creatures of a power , who fwears That he will judge the earth , and call the fool To a ... prove it in the infallible refult heart So hollow 86 BOOK III . THE TASK .
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