The Works of the English Poets, Volumes 1-2Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) H. Baldwin, 1779 - 315 pages |
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... painful fearch of what he cannot find , At night's approach , content with the next cot , There ruminates , a while , his labour loft ; Then chears his heart with what his fate affords , And chaunts his fonnet to deceive the time , Till ...
... painful fearch of what he cannot find , At night's approach , content with the next cot , There ruminates , a while , his labour loft ; Then chears his heart with what his fate affords , And chaunts his fonnet to deceive the time , Till ...
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... pains ; and age has pains to footh . 15 20 When age , care , crime , and friends embrac'd at heart , Torn from my bleeding breast , and death's dark fhade , Which hovers o'er me , quench th ' ethereal fire ; Canft thou , O Night ...
... pains ; and age has pains to footh . 15 20 When age , care , crime , and friends embrac'd at heart , Torn from my bleeding breast , and death's dark fhade , Which hovers o'er me , quench th ' ethereal fire ; Canft thou , O Night ...
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... pain , no pause ! no bound ! Inexorable , all ! and all , extreme ! Nor man alone ; the foe of God and man , From his dark den , blafpheming , drags his chain , And rears his brazen front , with thunder fcarr'd : Receives his fentence ...
... pain , no pause ! no bound ! Inexorable , all ! and all , extreme ! Nor man alone ; the foe of God and man , From his dark den , blafpheming , drags his chain , And rears his brazen front , with thunder fcarr'd : Receives his fentence ...
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... pain , and death ? Who , without pain's advice , would e'er be good ? Who , without death , but would be good in vain ? Pain is to fave from pain ; all punishment , To make for peace ; and death to fave from death And second death , to ...
... pain , and death ? Who , without pain's advice , would e'er be good ? Who , without death , but would be good in vain ? Pain is to fave from pain ; all punishment , To make for peace ; and death to fave from death And second death , to ...
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... pain ; its hideous groans Join heaven's fweet hallelujahs in thy praise , Great Source of good alone ! How kind in all ! In vengeance kind ! pain , death , gehenna , Save . 480 Thus , in thy world material , Mighty Mind ! Not that alone ...
... pain ; its hideous groans Join heaven's fweet hallelujahs in thy praise , Great Source of good alone ! How kind in all ! In vengeance kind ! pain , death , gehenna , Save . 480 Thus , in thy world material , Mighty Mind ! Not that alone ...
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