The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... never interrupt me more . Ver . 183 . 175 180 . 185 Nought underneath this roof but damps are found , Nought heard but drowfy beetles buzzing round . Spread cobwebs hide the walls , and duft the floors , And midnight filence guards the ...
... never interrupt me more . Ver . 183 . 175 180 . 185 Nought underneath this roof but damps are found , Nought heard but drowfy beetles buzzing round . Spread cobwebs hide the walls , and duft the floors , And midnight filence guards the ...
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... never break , nor tempefts roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke , ' tis o'er . The wife through thought th ' infults of death defy ; The fools , through bleft infenfibility . ' Tis what the guilty fear , the pious crave ; Sought ...
... never break , nor tempefts roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke , ' tis o'er . The wife through thought th ' infults of death defy ; The fools , through bleft infenfibility . ' Tis what the guilty fear , the pious crave ; Sought ...
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... never think Of any arms but fuch as pen and ink : But th ' enemy , at their expence , fhall find When honour calls , I'll fcorn to stay behind . 59 55 65 75 your art . ; He faid ; and feal'd th E 2 Ne THE DISPENSARY . CANTO IV . 54.
... never think Of any arms but fuch as pen and ink : But th ' enemy , at their expence , fhall find When honour calls , I'll fcorn to stay behind . 59 55 65 75 your art . ; He faid ; and feal'd th E 2 Ne THE DISPENSARY . CANTO IV . 54.
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... never aim'd in verse to please , We had not rank'd him with our Ogilbys . Still cenfures will on dull pretenders fall ; A Codrus fhould expect a Juvenal . Il lines , but like ill paintings , are allow'd , To set off , and to recommend ...
... never aim'd in verse to please , We had not rank'd him with our Ogilbys . Still cenfures will on dull pretenders fall ; A Codrus fhould expect a Juvenal . Il lines , but like ill paintings , are allow'd , To set off , and to recommend ...
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... never pleas'd . A prefent good they flight , an abfent choose ; And what they have , for what they have not , lofe . Falfe profpects all their true delights destroy , Refolv'd to want , yet labouring to enjoy . In restless hurries ...
... never pleas'd . A prefent good they flight , an abfent choose ; And what they have , for what they have not , lofe . Falfe profpects all their true delights destroy , Refolv'd to want , yet labouring to enjoy . In restless hurries ...
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