The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... last indulge the fault the first commit ; And take off ftill the offal of their wit . 5 So fhameless , fo abandon'd , are their ways ; They poach Parnaffus , and lay fnares for praife . None None ever can without admirers live , Who ...
... last indulge the fault the first commit ; And take off ftill the offal of their wit . 5 So fhameless , fo abandon'd , are their ways ; They poach Parnaffus , and lay fnares for praife . None None ever can without admirers live , Who ...
Page 127
... last . The Sibyl mounting now from nether skies , And the fam'd Ilian prince , at Cuma rise . He fail'd , and near the place to anchor came , Since call'd Cajeta , from his nurse's name . Here did the luck lefs Macareus , a friend To ...
... last . The Sibyl mounting now from nether skies , And the fam'd Ilian prince , at Cuma rise . He fail'd , and near the place to anchor came , Since call'd Cajeta , from his nurse's name . Here did the luck lefs Macareus , a friend To ...
Page 135
... last beholds the weeping fair ; Her feeble limbs no more the mourner bear ; Stretch'd on his banks , the to the flood complains , And faintly tunes her voice to dying strains . The fickening fwan thus hangs her filver wings , And , as ...
... last beholds the weeping fair ; Her feeble limbs no more the mourner bear ; Stretch'd on his banks , the to the flood complains , And faintly tunes her voice to dying strains . The fickening fwan thus hangs her filver wings , And , as ...
Page 147
... last forget . The licence of a paffion indifcreet . Now triumph , fince a welcome facrifice * Your flave prepares , to offer to your eyes . My life , without reluctance , I refign ;, That present best can please a pride like thine . But ...
... last forget . The licence of a paffion indifcreet . Now triumph , fince a welcome facrifice * Your flave prepares , to offer to your eyes . My life , without reluctance , I refign ;, That present best can please a pride like thine . But ...
Page 172
... last obliging letter , to obtain the happiness of my correfpondence with Dr. Lifter ; and to that end have fent you the inclofed , to be communicated to him , you think convenient . if SIR , LETTER III . To Dr. LISTER , prefent . IAM a ...
... last obliging letter , to obtain the happiness of my correfpondence with Dr. Lifter ; and to that end have fent you the inclofed , to be communicated to him , you think convenient . if SIR , LETTER III . To Dr. LISTER , prefent . IAM a ...
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