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... ; though with long interruptions of ill health and other hindrances . About a fortnight before I had finished it , his majesty's declaration for liberty of confcience B 3 confcience came abroad : which if I had fo foon TO THE READER . $
... ; though with long interruptions of ill health and other hindrances . About a fortnight before I had finished it , his majesty's declaration for liberty of confcience B 3 confcience came abroad : which if I had fo foon TO THE READER . $
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Samuel Johnson. confcience came abroad : which if I had fo foon ex- pected , I might have spared myself the labour of writing many things which are contained in the third part of it .. But I was always in fome hope , that the church of ...
Samuel Johnson. confcience came abroad : which if I had fo foon ex- pected , I might have spared myself the labour of writing many things which are contained in the third part of it .. But I was always in fome hope , that the church of ...
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... foon by lawful power she might controul , Herfelf a part fubmitted to the whole . Then , as the moon who first receives the light By which she makes our nether regions bright , So might the fhine , reflecting from afar The rays the ...
... foon by lawful power she might controul , Herfelf a part fubmitted to the whole . Then , as the moon who first receives the light By which she makes our nether regions bright , So might the fhine , reflecting from afar The rays the ...
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... foon forgot Her friend and fellow - fufferer in the plot . Yet wondering how of late she grew estrang'd , Her forehead cloudy , and her countenance chang'd , She thought this hour th ' occafion would present To learn her fecret caufe of ...
... foon forgot Her friend and fellow - fufferer in the plot . Yet wondering how of late she grew estrang'd , Her forehead cloudy , and her countenance chang'd , She thought this hour th ' occafion would present To learn her fecret caufe of ...
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... foon against your fuperftitious lawn Some prefbyterian fabre would be drawn : your establish'd laws of fovereignty In The reft fome fundamental flaw would fee , And call rebellion gofpel - liberty . } } } MÅ To " To church - decrees ...
... foon against your fuperftitious lawn Some prefbyterian fabre would be drawn : your establish'd laws of fovereignty In The reft fome fundamental flaw would fee , And call rebellion gofpel - liberty . } } } MÅ To " To church - decrees ...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces ..., Volume 14, Page 2 Samuel Johnson No preview available - 1779 |
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Page 214 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure — Rich the treasure Sweet the pleasure. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 201 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 215 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 11 - Disguised in mortal mould and infancy? That the great Maker of the world could die? And after that trust my imperfect sense, Which calls in question His Omnipotence?
Page 137 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne.
Page 27 - She made a mannerly excuse to stay, Proffering the Hind to wait her half the way: That, since the sky was clear, an hour of talk Might help her to beguile the tedious walk. With much good-will the motion was embrac'd...
Page 214 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 202 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot...
Page 218 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page 111 - On his left hand twelve reverend owls did fly. So Romulus, 'tis sung, by Tiber's Brook, Presage of sway from twice six vultures took. Th 'admiring throng loud acclamations make And omens of his future empire take.