The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... naturally as pigs fqueak ; That Latin was no more difficile , Than to a blackbird ' tis to whistle : Being rich in both , he never fcanted His bounty unto fuch as wanted ; 55 But Ver . 55 , 56. ] This is the property of a pedantic ...
... naturally as pigs fqueak ; That Latin was no more difficile , Than to a blackbird ' tis to whistle : Being rich in both , he never fcanted His bounty unto fuch as wanted ; 55 But Ver . 55 , 56. ] This is the property of a pedantic ...
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... natural one ; his political perfon , they faid , muft be , and was , with the Parliament , though his natural perfon was at war with them . Ver . 530. Good Lord ( fays the True Informer , p . 12. ) what a deal of dirt was thrown in the ...
... natural one ; his political perfon , they faid , muft be , and was , with the Parliament , though his natural perfon was at war with them . Ver . 530. Good Lord ( fays the True Informer , p . 12. ) what a deal of dirt was thrown in the ...
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... natural death appear thy work , And ftop the gangrene in ftale pork ; Not all that force that makes thee proud , Because by bullock ne'er withstood ; Though arm'd with all thy cleavers , knives , And axes , made to hew down lives ...
... natural death appear thy work , And ftop the gangrene in ftale pork ; Not all that force that makes thee proud , Because by bullock ne'er withstood ; Though arm'd with all thy cleavers , knives , And axes , made to hew down lives ...
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... natural lord , As a man may say , with might and main He hasted to get up again . Thrice he effay'd to mount aloft , But , by his weighty bum , as oft 620 He was pull'd back , till having found Th ' advantage of the rifing ground ...
... natural lord , As a man may say , with might and main He hasted to get up again . Thrice he effay'd to mount aloft , But , by his weighty bum , as oft 620 He was pull'd back , till having found Th ' advantage of the rifing ground ...
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... naturally are beafts of prey , That live by rapine ; fo do they . What are their Orders , Conftitutions , Church - cenfures , Curfes , Abfolutions ,. MOO 1105 IIIO 1115 1120 1125 But But feveral myftic chains they make , To tie poor ...
... naturally are beafts of prey , That live by rapine ; fo do they . What are their Orders , Conftitutions , Church - cenfures , Curfes , Abfolutions ,. MOO 1105 IIIO 1115 1120 1125 But But feveral myftic chains they make , To tie poor ...
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