The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 46Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Draws health from herbs , and fhews the balm to heal ; Or with loom'd wool the native robe supplies ; 280 Or bids young plants in future forests rife ; Or fells the monarch oak , which , borne away , Shall , with new grace , the diftant ...
... Draws health from herbs , and fhews the balm to heal ; Or with loom'd wool the native robe supplies ; 280 Or bids young plants in future forests rife ; Or fells the monarch oak , which , borne away , Shall , with new grace , the diftant ...
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... Draws health from herbs , and shews the balm to heal ; Or with loom'd wool the native robe supplies ; 280 Or bids young plants in future forefts rife ; Or fells the monarch cak , which , borne away , Shall , with new grace , the distant ...
... Draws health from herbs , and shews the balm to heal ; Or with loom'd wool the native robe supplies ; 280 Or bids young plants in future forefts rife ; Or fells the monarch cak , which , borne away , Shall , with new grace , the distant ...
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... draw avenging grief . Honour , the more obstructed , stronger fhines , And zeal by perfecution's rage refines . By woe , the foul to daring action swells ; By woe , in paintlefs patience it excels ; 245 From patient , prudent dear ...
... draw avenging grief . Honour , the more obstructed , stronger fhines , And zeal by perfecution's rage refines . By woe , the foul to daring action swells ; By woe , in paintlefs patience it excels ; 245 From patient , prudent dear ...
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... draw ? Can its foot fharpen , like the vulture's claw ? Can the fond goat , or tender , fleecy dam Howl , like the wolf , to tear the kid , or lamb ? Yes , there are mothers - There I fear'd his aim , And , confcious , trembled at the ...
... draw ? Can its foot fharpen , like the vulture's claw ? Can the fond goat , or tender , fleecy dam Howl , like the wolf , to tear the kid , or lamb ? Yes , there are mothers - There I fear'd his aim , And , confcious , trembled at the ...
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... drawn truth display , As from black chaos rofe refplendent day ! Awake compaffion , and bid terror rife ! Bid humble forrows ftrike fuperior eyes ! So pamper'd power , unconfcious of diftrefs , May fee , be mov'd , and , being mov'd ...
... drawn truth display , As from black chaos rofe refplendent day ! Awake compaffion , and bid terror rife ! Bid humble forrows ftrike fuperior eyes ! So pamper'd power , unconfcious of diftrefs , May fee , be mov'd , and , being mov'd ...
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Page 68 - Griev'd I forgive, and am grown cool too late; Young and unthoughtful then, who knows one day What ripening virtues might have made their way!
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Page 29 - Can its foot sharpen, like the vulture's claw? Can the fond goat, or tender fleecy dam, Howl, like the wolf, to tear the kid, or lamb? Yes, there are mothers...
Page 66 - tis to you My thanks for such distinguish'd claims are due ; You, unenslav'd to Nature's narrow laws, Warm championess for freedom's sacred cause, From all the dry devoirs of blood and line, . From ties maternal, moral and divine, Discharg'd my grasping soul ; push'd me from shore, And launch'd me into life without an oar.
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Page 56 - He deem'd it godlike to have power to blefs : Thus, when unguarded, treafon ftain'd him o'er; And virtue and content were then no more. But when to death by rigorous...