The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... 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 have a 92 POEMS . GARTH'S.
... 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 have a 92 POEMS . GARTH'S.
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. None ever can without admirers live , Who have a pension or a place to give . Great ministers ne'er fail of great deserts ; The herald gives them blood ; the poet , parts . Senfe ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. None ever can without admirers live , Who have a pension or a place to give . Great ministers ne'er fail of great deserts ; The herald gives them blood ; the poet , parts . Senfe ...
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... live . No cook with art increas'd phyficians ' fees : Nor ferv'd up Death in foups and fricafees : Their taste was , like their temper , unrefin'd ; For looks were then the language of the mind . Ere right and wrong , by turns , fet ...
... live . No cook with art increas'd phyficians ' fees : Nor ferv'd up Death in foups and fricafees : Their taste was , like their temper , unrefin'd ; For looks were then the language of the mind . Ere right and wrong , by turns , fet ...
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... live , In beings brave and virtuous they revive . Again fhall Romulus in Nassau reign ; 195 Great Numa , in a Brunswick prince , ordain Good laws ; and Halcyon years fhall hush the world again . The truths of old traditions were their ...
... live , In beings brave and virtuous they revive . Again fhall Romulus in Nassau reign ; 195 Great Numa , in a Brunswick prince , ordain Good laws ; and Halcyon years fhall hush the world again . The truths of old traditions were their ...
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... Still finding future subjects for the Muse ; And , to record the Sylvan's fatal flame , The place hall live in fong , and Claremont be the name . ΤΟ H 4 TO THE LADY LOUISA LENOS : MATE OVD'S EPISTLES . CLAREMONT . 103.
... Still finding future subjects for the Muse ; And , to record the Sylvan's fatal flame , The place hall live in fong , and Claremont be the name . ΤΟ H 4 TO THE LADY LOUISA LENOS : MATE OVD'S EPISTLES . CLAREMONT . 103.
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