The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 30Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... God to afflict him ; and indulging the reflections of a mind , that had looked through the world with too piercing an eye , and was grown weary of the profpect . Upon the whole , it may very justly be said of this great man , with ...
... God to afflict him ; and indulging the reflections of a mind , that had looked through the world with too piercing an eye , and was grown weary of the profpect . Upon the whole , it may very justly be said of this great man , with ...
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... God , forfooth , is found . Incomprehenfible and infinite . But is he therefore found ? Vain fearcher ! no : Let your imperfect definition show , That nothing you , the weak definer , know . IV . Say , why fhould the collected main ...
... God , forfooth , is found . Incomprehenfible and infinite . But is he therefore found ? Vain fearcher ! no : Let your imperfect definition show , That nothing you , the weak definer , know . IV . Say , why fhould the collected main ...
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... God , forfooth , is found . Incomprehenfible and infinite . But is he therefore found ? Vain fearcher ! no : Let your imperfect definition show , That nothing you , the weak definer , know . IV . Say , why should the collected main ...
... God , forfooth , is found . Incomprehenfible and infinite . But is he therefore found ? Vain fearcher ! no : Let your imperfect definition show , That nothing you , the weak definer , know . IV . Say , why should the collected main ...
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... God his wandering guefs ( That feeble engine of his reafoning war , Which guides his doubts , and combats his despair ) ,. Laws to his Maker the learn'd wretch can give : Can bound that nature , and prescribe that will , Whofe pregnant ...
... God his wandering guefs ( That feeble engine of his reafoning war , Which guides his doubts , and combats his despair ) ,. Laws to his Maker the learn'd wretch can give : Can bound that nature , and prescribe that will , Whofe pregnant ...
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... God rejects my cry . O'erwhelm'd in darkness and defpair I groan ; And every place is hell , for God is gone . C.4 . 01 O ! Lord , arife , and let thy beams PRIOR'S 23 : POEMS . Confiderations on Part of the 88th Pfalm,
... God rejects my cry . O'erwhelm'd in darkness and defpair I groan ; And every place is hell , for God is gone . C.4 . 01 O ! Lord , arife , and let thy beams PRIOR'S 23 : POEMS . Confiderations on Part of the 88th Pfalm,
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Page 116 - Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
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Page 110 - ... tis his fancy to run, At night he declines on his Thetis's breast. So, when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way ; They were but my visits, but thou art my home ! Then finish, dear Chloe, this pastoral war, And let us like Horace and Lydia agree ; For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me.