The Works of the English Poets, Volumes 1-2Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) H. Baldwin, 1779 - 315 pages |
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... mortal ; empires , die : where , now , The Roman ? Greek ? They talk , an empty name ! Yet few regard them in this useful light ; Though half our learning is their epitaph . 105 110 When down thy vale , unlock'd by midnight thought ...
... mortal ; empires , die : where , now , The Roman ? Greek ? They talk , an empty name ! Yet few regard them in this useful light ; Though half our learning is their epitaph . 105 110 When down thy vale , unlock'd by midnight thought ...
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... mortal , uninspir'd , Has ever yet conceiv'd , or ever shall , How kind is God , how great ( if good ) is Man . No man too largely from heaven's love can hope , If what is hop'd he labours to fecure . 435 440 Ills ? -there are none ...
... mortal , uninspir'd , Has ever yet conceiv'd , or ever shall , How kind is God , how great ( if good ) is Man . No man too largely from heaven's love can hope , If what is hop'd he labours to fecure . 435 440 Ills ? -there are none ...
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... mortal ear , the glorious Architect , 765 In This His univerfal temple hung With luftres , with innumerable lights , That shed religion on the foul ; at once , The Temple , and the Preacher ! O how loud It calls devotion ! genuine ...
... mortal ear , the glorious Architect , 765 In This His univerfal temple hung With luftres , with innumerable lights , That shed religion on the foul ; at once , The Temple , and the Preacher ! O how loud It calls devotion ! genuine ...
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... mortal's fight . Were moon , and stars , for villains only made ? To guide , yet fereen them , with tenebrious light ? 965 No ; they were made to fafnion the fublime Of human hearts , and wifer make the Wife . Thofe ends were answer'd ...
... mortal's fight . Were moon , and stars , for villains only made ? To guide , yet fereen them , with tenebrious light ? 965 No ; they were made to fafnion the fublime Of human hearts , and wifer make the Wife . Thofe ends were answer'd ...
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... mortal , untranslated , never stray'd ? “ O ye , as distant from my little home , " As swifteft fun - beams in an age can fly ! " Far from my native element I roam , " In queft of new , and wonderful , to man . 1750 1755 " What province ...
... mortal , untranslated , never stray'd ? “ O ye , as distant from my little home , " As swifteft fun - beams in an age can fly ! " Far from my native element I roam , " In queft of new , and wonderful , to man . 1750 1755 " What province ...
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