The Works of the English Poets, Volumes 1-2Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) H. Baldwin, 1779 - 315 pages |
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... must prove our lot ; A part which few poffefs ! I'll pay life's tax , Without one rebel murmur , from this hour , Nor think it misery to be a man ; Who thinks it is , fhall never be a God . Some ills we wish for , when we wish to live ...
... must prove our lot ; A part which few poffefs ! I'll pay life's tax , Without one rebel murmur , from this hour , Nor think it misery to be a man ; Who thinks it is , fhall never be a God . Some ills we wish for , when we wish to live ...
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... must be their ador'd . But They how weak , who could no higher mount ? And are there , then , Lorenzo ! Thofe , to whom Unfeen , and Unexiftent , are the fame ? And if incomprehenfible is join'd , Who dare pronounce it madness , to ...
... must be their ador'd . But They how weak , who could no higher mount ? And are there , then , Lorenzo ! Thofe , to whom Unfeen , and Unexiftent , are the fame ? And if incomprehenfible is join'd , Who dare pronounce it madness , to ...
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... must own the skies forgot . Much lefs in Art . - Vain Art ! Thou pigmy power ! How doft thou swell and ftrut , with human pride , To fhew thy littleness ! What childish toys , " Thy watery columns squirted to the clouds ! Thy bafon'd ...
... must own the skies forgot . Much lefs in Art . - Vain Art ! Thou pigmy power ! How doft thou swell and ftrut , with human pride , To fhew thy littleness ! What childish toys , " Thy watery columns squirted to the clouds ! Thy bafon'd ...
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... must be great ; Great , in its wishes ; great , in its furveys , Extended views a narrow mind extend ; Push out its corrugate , expanfive make , Which , ere long , more than planets fhall embrace . 1385 A man of compass makes a man of ...
... must be great ; Great , in its wishes ; great , in its furveys , Extended views a narrow mind extend ; Push out its corrugate , expanfive make , Which , ere long , more than planets fhall embrace . 1385 A man of compass makes a man of ...
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... must be .-- " But what eternal ? -Why not human race ? " And Adam's ancestors without an end ? - " That's hard to be conceiv'd ; fince every link 1455 " Of that long - chain'd succession is so frail ; " Can every part depend , and not ...
... must be .-- " But what eternal ? -Why not human race ? " And Adam's ancestors without an end ? - " That's hard to be conceiv'd ; fince every link 1455 " Of that long - chain'd succession is so frail ; " Can every part depend , and not ...
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