The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 47
... reason we should quarrel with the glass That fhews the monftrous features of our face ? Or grant fome grave pretenders have of late Thought fit an innovation to create ; Soon they'll repent what rafhly they begun : Though projects ...
... reason we should quarrel with the glass That fhews the monftrous features of our face ? Or grant fome grave pretenders have of late Thought fit an innovation to create ; Soon they'll repent what rafhly they begun : Though projects ...
Page 53
... reason to redress . So when perfumes their fragrant fcent give o'er , Nought can their odour , like a jakes , restore . When for advice the vulgar throng , he's found With lumber of vile books befieg'd around . The gazing throng ...
... reason to redress . So when perfumes their fragrant fcent give o'er , Nought can their odour , like a jakes , restore . When for advice the vulgar throng , he's found With lumber of vile books befieg'd around . The gazing throng ...
Page 137
... reasons for neutrality affign'd : Shall I , of one poor dotal town poffeft , My people thin , my wretched country wafte ; An exil'd prince , and on a shaking throne ; Or risk my patron's subjects , or my own ? You'll grieve the ...
... reasons for neutrality affign'd : Shall I , of one poor dotal town poffeft , My people thin , my wretched country wafte ; An exil'd prince , and on a shaking throne ; Or risk my patron's subjects , or my own ? You'll grieve the ...
Page 254
... reason fhall have part : For Nature's paffion cannot be deftroy'd , But moves in Virtue's path when well employ'd . Yet ftill ' twill be convenient to remove The tyranny and plagues of vulgar love . May infant Chaftity , grave matron's ...
... reason fhall have part : For Nature's paffion cannot be deftroy'd , But moves in Virtue's path when well employ'd . Yet ftill ' twill be convenient to remove The tyranny and plagues of vulgar love . May infant Chaftity , grave matron's ...
Page 256
... reason there may oft ' admire That which may raise in him a nobler fire ; Till the kind Fair relieves what he endures , Caus'd at that water which all others cures . Sometimes at marriage - rites you may espy Their charms protected by a ...
... reason there may oft ' admire That which may raise in him a nobler fire ; Till the kind Fair relieves what he endures , Caus'd at that water which all others cures . Sometimes at marriage - rites you may espy Their charms protected by a ...
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