The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Grace Put on fome cloaths to come abroad , And took a waiter's place . Then Cupid nam'd at every glass A lady of the sky ; While Bacchus fwore he'd drink the lafs And had it bumper - high . Fat Comus toft his brimmers.o'er , And always ...
... Grace Put on fome cloaths to come abroad , And took a waiter's place . Then Cupid nam'd at every glass A lady of the sky ; While Bacchus fwore he'd drink the lafs And had it bumper - high . Fat Comus toft his brimmers.o'er , And always ...
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... grace , And wag'd dire combats with the croaking race . Not louder tumults fhook Olympus ' towers , When earth - born giants dar'd immortal powers . Thefe equal acts an equal glory claim , And thus the Mufe records the tale of fame ...
... grace , And wag'd dire combats with the croaking race . Not louder tumults fhook Olympus ' towers , When earth - born giants dar'd immortal powers . Thefe equal acts an equal glory claim , And thus the Mufe records the tale of fame ...
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... grace To Frogs that perish , than to human race , Felt foft compaffion rising in his foul , And shook his facred head , that shook the pole . Then thus to all the gazing powers began The fire of Gods , and Frogs , and Mice , and Man ...
... grace To Frogs that perish , than to human race , Felt foft compaffion rising in his foul , And shook his facred head , that shook the pole . Then thus to all the gazing powers began The fire of Gods , and Frogs , and Mice , and Man ...
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... grace . Ye foolish nurflings of the fummer air , Thefe gentle tunes and whining fongs forbear ; Your trees and whispering breeze , your grove and love , Your Cupid's quiver , and his mother's dove ; Let Bards to business bend their ...
... grace . Ye foolish nurflings of the fummer air , Thefe gentle tunes and whining fongs forbear ; Your trees and whispering breeze , your grove and love , Your Cupid's quiver , and his mother's dove ; Let Bards to business bend their ...
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... grace He gravely fhew'd his forward face , Jove talk'd of breeding him on high , An under - something of the sky . But ere he gave the mighty nod , Which ever binds a Poet's God ( For which his curls ambrofial fshake , And mother ...
... grace He gravely fhew'd his forward face , Jove talk'd of breeding him on high , An under - something of the sky . But ere he gave the mighty nod , Which ever binds a Poet's God ( For which his curls ambrofial fshake , And mother ...
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