Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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... 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.
... 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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... use , Elfe noxious : oceans , rivers , lakes , and ftreams , All feel the freshening impulfe , and are cleanfed By reftlefs undulation : even the oak VOL . II . C Thrives by the rude concuffion of the storm : He BOOK I. 17 THE SOFA .
... use , Elfe noxious : oceans , rivers , lakes , and ftreams , All feel the freshening impulfe , and are cleanfed By reftlefs undulation : even the oak VOL . II . C Thrives by the rude concuffion of the storm : He BOOK I. 17 THE SOFA .
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... use Life's neceifary means , but he must die . Storms rife to overwhelm him : or , if ftormy winds Rife not , the waters of the deep fhall rife , And , needing none affiftance of the storm , Shall roll themselves afhore , and reach him ...
... use Life's neceifary means , but he must die . Storms rife to overwhelm him : or , if ftormy winds Rife not , the waters of the deep fhall rife , And , needing none affiftance of the storm , Shall roll themselves afhore , and reach him ...
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... use , and ready at his will ? Go , dress thine eyes with eye - falve ; ask of him , Or afk of whomfoever he has taught ; And learn , though late , the genuine cause of all . England , with all thy faults , I love thee still- My country ...
... use , and ready at his will ? Go , dress thine eyes with eye - falve ; ask of him , Or afk of whomfoever he has taught ; And learn , though late , the genuine cause of all . England , with all thy faults , I love thee still- My country ...
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... 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 clofe , a ...
... 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 clofe , a ...
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