The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... best , Whose judgement , and whose friendship , is a test . With learned Hans thy healing cares be join'd ; Search thoughtful Ratcliffe to his inmost mind ; Unite , reftore your arts , and fave mankind : Whilft all the bufy Mirmils of ...
... best , Whose judgement , and whose friendship , is a test . With learned Hans thy healing cares be join'd ; Search thoughtful Ratcliffe to his inmost mind ; Unite , reftore your arts , and fave mankind : Whilft all the bufy Mirmils of ...
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... best canft tell , How ancient leagues to modern discord fell ; And why Phyficians were fo cautious grown Of others ' lives , and lavish of their own ; How by a journey to th ' Elyfian plain Peace triumph'd , and old Time return'd again ...
... best canft tell , How ancient leagues to modern discord fell ; And why Phyficians were fo cautious grown Of others ' lives , and lavish of their own ; How by a journey to th ' Elyfian plain Peace triumph'd , and old Time return'd again ...
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... best could fill his purfe , and thin the town . But now from gathering - clouds deftruction pours , Which ruins with mad rage our halcyon hours : Mifts from black jealoufies the tempeft form , Whilft late divifions reinforce the form ...
... best could fill his purfe , and thin the town . But now from gathering - clouds deftruction pours , Which ruins with mad rage our halcyon hours : Mifts from black jealoufies the tempeft form , Whilft late divifions reinforce the form ...
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... best has flaws . 160 Five guineas make a criminal to - day ; And ten to - morrow wipe the ftain away . Whatever he affirms is undeny'd , Milo's the Lecher , Clodius th ' Homicide ; Cato pernicious , Catiline a faint , Orford fufpected ...
... best has flaws . 160 Five guineas make a criminal to - day ; And ten to - morrow wipe the ftain away . Whatever he affirms is undeny'd , Milo's the Lecher , Clodius th ' Homicide ; Cato pernicious , Catiline a faint , Orford fufpected ...
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... best . Let quinfies throttle , and the quartan shake , Or dropfies drown , and gout and colics rack ; Let fword and peftilence lay wafte , while we ' Wage bloodlefs wars , and fight in theory . Who wants not merit , needs not arm for ...
... best . Let quinfies throttle , and the quartan shake , Or dropfies drown , and gout and colics rack ; Let fword and peftilence lay wafte , while we ' Wage bloodlefs wars , and fight in theory . Who wants not merit , needs not arm for ...
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