The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 74
... painful truths at best . Vainly the time I have to roll In fad reflection flies ; Ye fondling paffions of my foul ! I wifely Ye fweet deceits ! arife . I wifely change the scene within , To things that 74 PARNELL'S POEMS .
... painful truths at best . Vainly the time I have to roll In fad reflection flies ; Ye fondling paffions of my foul ! I wifely Ye fweet deceits ! arife . I wifely change the scene within , To things that 74 PARNELL'S POEMS .
Page 75
... pain , philofophy is spleen , In health , ' tis only ease . A NIGHT - PIECE ON DEATH . Y the blue taper's trembling light , BY No more I waste the wakeful night , Intent with endless view to pore The schoolmen and the fages o'er : Their ...
... pain , philofophy is spleen , In health , ' tis only ease . A NIGHT - PIECE ON DEATH . Y the blue taper's trembling light , BY No more I waste the wakeful night , Intent with endless view to pore The schoolmen and the fages o'er : Their ...
Page 88
... pain , And meafur'd back his fteps to earth again . To what exceffes had his dotage run ? But God , to fave the father , took the fon . To all but thee , in fits he feem'd to go , ( And ' t was my ministry to deal the blow ) The poor ...
... pain , And meafur'd back his fteps to earth again . To what exceffes had his dotage run ? But God , to fave the father , took the fon . To all but thee , in fits he feem'd to go , ( And ' t was my ministry to deal the blow ) The poor ...
Page 102
... pains , Winds round and round , and every turn essays , Where fudden breaks refift the shorter ways . Yet labour fo , that ere faint age arrive , Thy fearching foul poffefs her reft alive : To To work by twilight were to work too late ...
... pains , Winds round and round , and every turn essays , Where fudden breaks refift the shorter ways . Yet labour fo , that ere faint age arrive , Thy fearching foul poffefs her reft alive : To To work by twilight were to work too late ...
Page 134
... pain , Saw Jabin gall them with Oppreffion's chain , When the , fubmiffive to Divine Command , Proclaims a war for Freedom o'er the land , And bids young Barack with those men defcend , Whom in the mountains he for battle train'd . Go ...
... pain , Saw Jabin gall them with Oppreffion's chain , When the , fubmiffive to Divine Command , Proclaims a war for Freedom o'er the land , And bids young Barack with those men defcend , Whom in the mountains he for battle train'd . Go ...
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