Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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Page 103
... The ruddier orange , and the paler lime , Peep through their polished foliage at the ftorm , And feem to fmile at what they need not fear . The amomum there with intermingling flowers And cherries hangs her BOOK III . 103 THE GARDEN .
... The ruddier orange , and the paler lime , Peep through their polished foliage at the ftorm , And feem to fmile at what they need not fear . The amomum there with intermingling flowers And cherries hangs her BOOK III . 103 THE GARDEN .
Page 104
William Cowper. The amomum there with intermingling flowers And cherries hangs her twigs . Geranium boasts Her ... flower , Muft lend its aid to illuftrate all their charms , And drefs the regular yet various scene . Plant behind plant ...
William Cowper. The amomum there with intermingling flowers And cherries hangs her twigs . Geranium boasts Her ... flower , Muft lend its aid to illuftrate all their charms , And drefs the regular yet various scene . Plant behind plant ...
Page 107
... flowers difpofed Sightly and in juft order , ere he gives The beds the trufted treasure of their feeds , Forecafts the future whole ; that when the scene Shall break into its preconceived difplay , Each for itself , and all as with one ...
... flowers difpofed Sightly and in juft order , ere he gives The beds the trufted treasure of their feeds , Forecafts the future whole ; that when the scene Shall break into its preconceived difplay , Each for itself , and all as with one ...
Page 110
... flowers , She lofes all her influence . Cities then Attract us , and neglected Nature pines Abandoned , as unworthy of our love . But are not wholefome airs , though unperfumed By rofes ; and clear funs , though fcarcely felt ; And ...
... flowers , She lofes all her influence . Cities then Attract us , and neglected Nature pines Abandoned , as unworthy of our love . But are not wholefome airs , though unperfumed By rofes ; and clear funs , though fcarcely felt ; And ...
Page 123
... ; Hear the faint echo of those brazen throats , By which he speaks the language of his heart , And figh , but never tremble at the found . He travels and expatiates , as the bee From flower BOOK IV . THE WINTER EVENING . 123.
... ; Hear the faint echo of those brazen throats , By which he speaks the language of his heart , And figh , but never tremble at the found . He travels and expatiates , as the bee From flower BOOK IV . THE WINTER EVENING . 123.
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Page 236 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Page 121 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 41 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 121 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb, And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots, bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and smiles.
Page 159 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Page 89 - In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 48 - Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use, and ready at his will...
Page 224 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 330 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Page 189 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.