The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... O'er their quietus where fat judges dose , And lull their cough and confcience to repose : Or , if fome cloister's refuge I implore , Where holy drones o'er dying tapers fnore , Ver . 170 . VARIATIONS . Sometimes among the Cafpian ...
... O'er their quietus where fat judges dose , And lull their cough and confcience to repose : Or , if fome cloister's refuge I implore , Where holy drones o'er dying tapers fnore , Ver . 170 . VARIATIONS . Sometimes among the Cafpian ...
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... o'er th ' azure waste are spread , And Mifs from inns of court bolts out unpaid ; The Sage , tranfported at th ' approaching hour , Imperiously thrice thunder'd on the floor ; Officious Squirt that moment had accefs , His truft was ...
... o'er th ' azure waste are spread , And Mifs from inns of court bolts out unpaid ; The Sage , tranfported at th ' approaching hour , Imperiously thrice thunder'd on the floor ; Officious Squirt that moment had accefs , His truft was ...
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... o'er the brim : Not beauties fret fo much if freckles come , Or nose should redden in the drawing - room ; Or lovers that miftake th ' appointed hour , Or in the lucky minute want the power . Thou fcandal of great Pæan's art , At thy ...
... o'er the brim : Not beauties fret fo much if freckles come , Or nose should redden in the drawing - room ; Or lovers that miftake th ' appointed hour , Or in the lucky minute want the power . Thou fcandal of great Pæan's art , At thy ...
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... 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 by the wretch , and vanquish'd by the brave . It cafes lovers , fets the ...
... 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 by the wretch , and vanquish'd by the brave . It cafes lovers , fets the ...
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... o'er a cafe , You but appear , and give the coup de grace . O that near Xanthus ' banks you had but dwelt , When Ilium first Achaian fury felt ! The horned river then had curs'd in vain 80 85 Young Pelcus ' arm , that chok'd his ftream ...
... o'er a cafe , You but appear , and give the coup de grace . O that near Xanthus ' banks you had but dwelt , When Ilium first Achaian fury felt ! The horned river then had curs'd in vain 80 85 Young Pelcus ' arm , that chok'd his ftream ...
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