The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... give the laurel too . But what avail'd the verdant prize of wit , If Love swore vengeance for the tales he writ ? Ye Fair offended , hear your friend relate What heavy judgment prov'd the writer's fate , Though when it happen'd no ...
... give the laurel too . But what avail'd the verdant prize of wit , If Love swore vengeance for the tales he writ ? Ye Fair offended , hear your friend relate What heavy judgment prov'd the writer's fate , Though when it happen'd no ...
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... gives the feather , I the dart : Then ceafe for fouls averfe to figh , If Nature crofs you , fo do I ; My weapon there unfeather'd flies , And shakes and shuffles through the skies . But if the mutual charms I find By which the links ...
... gives the feather , I the dart : Then ceafe for fouls averfe to figh , If Nature crofs you , fo do I ; My weapon there unfeather'd flies , And shakes and shuffles through the skies . But if the mutual charms I find By which the links ...
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... give . And learning's Goddess never lefs can owe , Neglected learning gains no wealth below ) . Nor let the Frogs to win my fuccour fue , Those clamorous fools have loft my favour too . For late , when all the conflict ceas'd at night ...
... give . And learning's Goddess never lefs can owe , Neglected learning gains no wealth below ) . Nor let the Frogs to win my fuccour fue , Those clamorous fools have loft my favour too . For late , when all the conflict ceas'd at night ...
Page 47
... Give the loud fignal to the rushing war ; Their dreadful trumpets deep - mouth'd hornets found , The founding charge remurmurs o'er the ground , Ev'n Jove proclaims a field of horror nigh , And rolls low thunder through the troubled fky ...
... Give the loud fignal to the rushing war ; Their dreadful trumpets deep - mouth'd hornets found , The founding charge remurmurs o'er the ground , Ev'n Jove proclaims a field of horror nigh , And rolls low thunder through the troubled fky ...
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... give ? ' Tis facred Virgil , as I live ! From leaf to leaf , from fong to fong , He draws the tadpole form along , He mounts the gilded edge before , He ' s up , he fcuds the cover o'er , He turns , he doubles , there he past , And here ...
... give ? ' Tis facred Virgil , as I live ! From leaf to leaf , from fong to fong , He draws the tadpole form along , He mounts the gilded edge before , He ' s up , he fcuds the cover o'er , He turns , he doubles , there he past , And here ...
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