The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... thou oft haft bid the world attend , Fond to forget the statesman in the friend : For Swift and him , defpis'd the farce of state , The fober follies of the wife and great ; Dextrous , the craving , fawning croud to quit , And pleas'd ...
... thou oft haft bid the world attend , Fond to forget the statesman in the friend : For Swift and him , defpis'd the farce of state , The fober follies of the wife and great ; Dextrous , the craving , fawning croud to quit , And pleas'd ...
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... thou , ftranger ? what the line you What chance has caft thee panting on our coaft ? With strictest truth let all thy words agree , Nor let me find a faithlefs Moufe in thee . If worthy , friendship , proffer'd friendship take , And D 3 ...
... thou , ftranger ? what the line you What chance has caft thee panting on our coaft ? With strictest truth let all thy words agree , Nor let me find a faithlefs Moufe in thee . If worthy , friendship , proffer'd friendship take , And D 3 ...
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... thou , that fling'st me floundering from thy back , As from hard rocks rebounds the shattering wrack , Nor thou fhalt ' fcape thy due , perfidious king ! Purfued by vengeance on the swiftest wing ! At land thy ftrength could never equal ...
... thou , that fling'st me floundering from thy back , As from hard rocks rebounds the shattering wrack , Nor thou fhalt ' fcape thy due , perfidious king ! Purfued by vengeance on the swiftest wing ! At land thy ftrength could never equal ...
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... Thou should't not fail of numbers worthy thine , The brighteft ancients might at once agree To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself would own thou doft excel In candid arts to play the critic well . Ovid himself might ...
... Thou should't not fail of numbers worthy thine , The brighteft ancients might at once agree To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself would own thou doft excel In candid arts to play the critic well . Ovid himself might ...
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... thou , a Daphnis he , While fome old Damon , o'er the vulgar wife , Thinks he deferves , and thou deferv'ft , the prize . Rapt with the thought , my fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the strains . Indulgent ...
... thou , a Daphnis he , While fome old Damon , o'er the vulgar wife , Thinks he deferves , and thou deferv'ft , the prize . Rapt with the thought , my fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the strains . Indulgent ...
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