The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. How the fame nerves are fashion'd to fuftain The greatest pleasure and the greatest pain ; Why bilious juice a golden light puts on , And floods of chyle in filver currents run ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. How the fame nerves are fashion'd to fuftain The greatest pleasure and the greatest pain ; Why bilious juice a golden light puts on , And floods of chyle in filver currents run ...
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... fame . This Philip's fon prov'd in revolving years ; And firft for rattles , then for worlds fhed tears . The Fury fpoke ; then in a moment fir'd The hero's breast with tempests , and retir'd . In boding dreams Mirmillo spent the night ...
... fame . This Philip's fon prov'd in revolving years ; And firft for rattles , then for worlds fhed tears . The Fury fpoke ; then in a moment fir'd The hero's breast with tempests , and retir'd . In boding dreams Mirmillo spent the night ...
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... fame ; The dead I raife , my chivalry proclaim ; Difeafes baffled , and loft health reftor'd , In Fame's bright lift my victories record . More lives from me their prefervation own , Than lovers lofe if fair Cornelia frown . 165 1.70 ...
... fame ; The dead I raife , my chivalry proclaim ; Difeafes baffled , and loft health reftor'd , In Fame's bright lift my victories record . More lives from me their prefervation own , Than lovers lofe if fair Cornelia frown . 165 1.70 ...
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... Fame , that neither good nor bad conceals , 195 That Pembroke's worth , and Ormond's valour tells ; How truth in Burnet , how in Cavendish , reigns , Varro's magnificence with Maro's strains ; But how at church and bar all gape and ...
... Fame , that neither good nor bad conceals , 195 That Pembroke's worth , and Ormond's valour tells ; How truth in Burnet , how in Cavendish , reigns , Varro's magnificence with Maro's strains ; But how at church and bar all gape and ...
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... fame . I fhow'd of old , how vital currents glide , And the meanders of the refluent tide . 315 320 Then , Willis , why fpontaneous actions here , 325- And whence involuntary motions there : And how the fpirits , by mechanic laws , In ...
... fame . I fhow'd of old , how vital currents glide , And the meanders of the refluent tide . 315 320 Then , Willis , why fpontaneous actions here , 325- And whence involuntary motions there : And how the fpirits , by mechanic laws , In ...
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