The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... pain , all anger , and all pride ; The rage of power , the blaft of public breath , The luft of lucre , and the dread of death . In vain to deferts thy retreat is made ; The Muse attends thee to thy filent shade : Tis hers , the brave ...
... pain , all anger , and all pride ; The rage of power , the blaft of public breath , The luft of lucre , and the dread of death . In vain to deferts thy retreat is made ; The Muse attends thee to thy filent shade : Tis hers , the brave ...
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... pains provide ; Women have time to facrifice to pride : They want the care of man , their want they know , And dress ... painful bee fupports ; From fun to fun , from bank to bank he flies , With honey loads his bag , with wax his thighs ...
... pains provide ; Women have time to facrifice to pride : They want the care of man , their want they know , And dress ... painful bee fupports ; From fun to fun , from bank to bank he flies , With honey loads his bag , with wax his thighs ...
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... pain , Creeps from the defperate dangers of the plain ; And where the ditches rifing weeds fupply To fpread their lowly fhades beneath the fky , There lurks the filent Moufe reliev'd from heat , And , fafe embower'd , avoids the chance ...
... pain , Creeps from the defperate dangers of the plain ; And where the ditches rifing weeds fupply To fpread their lowly fhades beneath the fky , There lurks the filent Moufe reliev'd from heat , And , fafe embower'd , avoids the chance ...
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... , Some call to march , and fome to lift the load ; They strain , they labour with inceffant pains , Prefs'd by the cumbrous weight of single grains . The The Flies ftruck filent gaze with wonder down : The 62 PARNELL'S POEMS .
... , Some call to march , and fome to lift the load ; They strain , they labour with inceffant pains , Prefs'd by the cumbrous weight of single grains . The The Flies ftruck filent gaze with wonder down : The 62 PARNELL'S POEMS .
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... pain . My ignorance could once beguile , And fancy'd joys inspire ; My errors cherish'd Hope to smile On newly - born defire . But now experience fhews , the bliss For which I fondly fought Not worth the long impatient wifh , And ardour ...
... pain . My ignorance could once beguile , And fancy'd joys inspire ; My errors cherish'd Hope to smile On newly - born defire . But now experience fhews , the bliss For which I fondly fought Not worth the long impatient wifh , And ardour ...
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