The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 46Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... mean ; but none cohere ! Mark ! wiley fowlers meditate their doom , And fmoaky Fate speeds thundering through the gloom ! Stop'd fhort , they cease in airy rings to fly , Whirl o'er and o'er , and , fluttering , fall and die . 95 100 ...
... mean ; but none cohere ! Mark ! wiley fowlers meditate their doom , And fmoaky Fate speeds thundering through the gloom ! Stop'd fhort , they cease in airy rings to fly , Whirl o'er and o'er , and , fluttering , fall and die . 95 100 ...
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... pitying breaft , His fecond means , to fuccour man diftreft . He paus'd . Deep thought upon his afpect gloom'd ; 255 Then he , with fmile humane , his voice refum'd . * form'd , ( and laugh me not to scorn I'm THE WANDERER , CANTO I. 35.
... pitying breaft , His fecond means , to fuccour man diftreft . He paus'd . Deep thought upon his afpect gloom'd ; 255 Then he , with fmile humane , his voice refum'd . * form'd , ( and laugh me not to scorn I'm THE WANDERER , CANTO I. 35.
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... mean heart display ; Thofe , who once prais'd , now undeceiv'd , despise , It lives contemn'd a day , then harmless dies . * He had then juft written THE EXCURSION . 340 Or Or fhould fome nobler bard , their worth , unpraife 18 SAVAGE'S ...
... mean heart display ; Thofe , who once prais'd , now undeceiv'd , despise , It lives contemn'd a day , then harmless dies . * He had then juft written THE EXCURSION . 340 Or Or fhould fome nobler bard , their worth , unpraife 18 SAVAGE'S ...
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... means vary , be they froft , or flame , Thy end , O Nature ! ftill remains the fame ! Be this the motive of a wife man's care , - To fhun deferving ills , and learn to bear . - 410 CANTO II . WHILE thus a mind humane , and wife , he ...
... means vary , be they froft , or flame , Thy end , O Nature ! ftill remains the fame ! Be this the motive of a wife man's care , - To fhun deferving ills , and learn to bear . - 410 CANTO II . WHILE thus a mind humane , and wife , he ...
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... means , to fuccour man distrest . 240 250 He paus'd . Deep thought upon his afpect gloom'd ; 255 Then he , with fmile humane , his voice refum'd . I'm just inform'd , ( and laugh me not to I'm THE WANDERER , CANTO I. 35.
... means , to fuccour man distrest . 240 250 He paus'd . Deep thought upon his afpect gloom'd ; 255 Then he , with fmile humane , his voice refum'd . I'm just inform'd , ( and laugh me not to I'm THE WANDERER , CANTO I. 35.
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