The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 51Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... give it then a tongue , As if an angel spoke , I feel the folemn found . If heard aright , It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . 60 It is the fignal that demands dispatch : How much is ...
... give it then a tongue , As if an angel spoke , I feel the folemn found . If heard aright , It is the knell of my departed hours : Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . 60 It is the fignal that demands dispatch : How much is ...
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... give , and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but fo great 265 Your impudence , you blush at what is right . Happy ! did forrow feize on such alone . Not prudence can defend , or virtue save ; Difeafe invades the chastest temperance ...
... give , and reduce Surfeit's dominion o'er you : but fo great 265 Your impudence , you blush at what is right . Happy ! did forrow feize on such alone . Not prudence can defend , or virtue save ; Difeafe invades the chastest temperance ...
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... give Swoln thought a second channel ; who divide , They weaken too , the torrent of their grief . Take then , O World ! thy much - indebted tear : How fad a fight is human happiness , 300 305 To thofe whofe thought can pierce beyond an ...
... give Swoln thought a second channel ; who divide , They weaken too , the torrent of their grief . Take then , O World ! thy much - indebted tear : How fad a fight is human happiness , 300 305 To thofe whofe thought can pierce beyond an ...
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... give it vent , The longest night , though longer far , would fail , And the lark liften to my midnight long . The fpritely lark's fhrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's fharpeft thorn hard preffing on my breaft , I frive , with wakeful ...
... give it vent , The longest night , though longer far , would fail , And the lark liften to my midnight long . The fpritely lark's fhrill matin wakes the morn ; Grief's fharpeft thorn hard preffing on my breaft , I frive , with wakeful ...
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... give ; Pregnant with all , ' that makes archangels fimile . Who murders time , he crufhes in the birth A power ethereal , only not ador'd . 110 115 Ah ! how unjust to nature and himself , Is thoughtless , thanklefs , inconfiftent man ...
... give ; Pregnant with all , ' that makes archangels fimile . Who murders time , he crufhes in the birth A power ethereal , only not ador'd . 110 115 Ah ! how unjust to nature and himself , Is thoughtless , thanklefs , inconfiftent man ...
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Page 30 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. Fly, ye profane ! If not, draw near with awe, Receive the blefling, and adore the chance,
Page 15 - both pain us, what can pleafe ? That which the Deity to pleafe ordain'd, Time us'd. The man who confecrates his hours 185 By vigorous effort, and an honeft aim, At once he draws the fting of life and death; He walks 'with Nature; and her paths are peace. Our error's
Page 52 - The deep damp vault, the darknefs, and the worm; Thefe are the bugbears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead. Imagination's fool, and error's wretch, Man makes a death, .which nature never made ; 15 Then on the point of his own fancy
Page 6 - out of life. Procraftination is the thief of time ; Year after year it fteals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves 395 The vaft concerns of an eternal
Page 95 - Tis a proud mendicant; it boafts, and begs ; It begs an alms of homage from the throng, And oft the throng denies its charity. 290 Monarchs and minifters are awful names ; Whoever wear them, challenge our devoir. Religion, public order, both exact External homage, and a fupple knee
Page 73 - Let him not violate kind nature's laws, " But own man born to live as well as die." Wretched and old thou giv'ft him ; young and gay He takes ; and -plunder is a tyrant's joy. What if I prove, " That fartheft from the fear, 790
Page 28 - A friend, but what has found a friend in Thee. All like the purchafe ; few the price will pay ; And this makes friends fuch miracles below. What if (fmce daring on fo nice a theme) I mew thee friendfhip Delicate, as Dear, Of tender violations apt to die
Page 120 - In this, not bis own place, this foreign field, Where nature fodders him with other food Than was ordain'd his cravings to fuffice, Poor in abundance, famifh'd at a feaft, Sighs on for fomething more, when mojl enjoy'd. 45 Is heaven then kinder to thy flocks than thee ? Not fo ; thy pafture richer, but remote
Page 35 - And make diftrefs, diftraftion. Oh Philander! What was thy fate ? A double fate to me ; Portent, and pain ! a menace, and a blow! Like the black raven hovering o'er my peace, Not lefs a bird of omen, than of prey. 75 It call'd Narcifl'a long before her hour; It call'd her tender foul, by break of
Page 108 - tis revolution all; All change ; no death. Day follows night; and night The dying day; ftars rife, and fet, and rife; Earth takes th' example. See, the Summer gay, 680 With her green chaplet, and ambrofial