The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Thou haft no faults , or I no faults can spy ; Thou art all beauty , or all blindness I. Critics and aged beaux of fancy chaste , Who ne'er had fire , or elfe whofe fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to taste . I ...
... Thou haft no faults , or I no faults can spy ; Thou art all beauty , or all blindness I. Critics and aged beaux of fancy chaste , Who ne'er had fire , or elfe whofe fire is past , Muft judge by rules what they want force to taste . I ...
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... thou that best canft tell , How ancient leagues to modern discord fell ; And why Phyficians were fo cautious grown Of others ' lives , and lavish of their own ; How by a journey to th ' Elyfian plain Peace triumph'd , and old Time ...
... thou that best canft tell , How ancient leagues to modern discord fell ; And why Phyficians were fo cautious grown Of others ' lives , and lavish of their own ; How by a journey to th ' Elyfian plain Peace triumph'd , and old Time ...
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... thou didst express , Nought could be equal , but the great fuccefs . Now call to mind thy generous prowess past , 170 175 Be what thou fhould'st , by thinking what thou waft : The faculty of Warwick - lane defign , If not to storm , at ...
... thou didst express , Nought could be equal , but the great fuccefs . Now call to mind thy generous prowess past , 170 175 Be what thou fhould'st , by thinking what thou waft : The faculty of Warwick - lane defign , If not to storm , at ...
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... thou ever moft propitious power , Whofe kind indulgence we difcern each hour ! Thou well canft boast thy numerous pedigree ,. Begot by floth , maintain'd by luxury .. In gilded palaces thy prowefs reigns , But flies the humble sheds of ...
... thou ever moft propitious power , Whofe kind indulgence we difcern each hour ! Thou well canft boast thy numerous pedigree ,. Begot by floth , maintain'd by luxury .. In gilded palaces thy prowefs reigns , But flies the humble sheds of ...
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... Thou fcandal of great Pæan's art , At thy approach the fprings of nature start , Thus he - 185 195 200 The nerves unbrace : nay , at the fight of thee , 205 A fcratch turns cancer , itch a leprofy . Could't thou propofe , that we , the ...
... Thou fcandal of great Pæan's art , At thy approach the fprings of nature start , Thus he - 185 195 200 The nerves unbrace : nay , at the fight of thee , 205 A fcratch turns cancer , itch a leprofy . Could't thou propofe , that we , the ...
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