The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 44Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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Page 40
... thoughts grow confcious of approaching woe , His idle tears with vain repentance flow , His locks he rends , his trembling feet he rears , Thick beats his heart with unaccuftora'd fears ; He fighs , and , chill'd with danger , longs for ...
... thoughts grow confcious of approaching woe , His idle tears with vain repentance flow , His locks he rends , his trembling feet he rears , Thick beats his heart with unaccuftora'd fears ; He fighs , and , chill'd with danger , longs for ...
Page 43
... appearance led , They point their anger at my guiltless head , But wage the rifing war by deep device , And turn its fury on the crafty . Mice . You Your king directs the way ; my thoughts , elate BATTLE OF THE FROGS , & c . 43.
... appearance led , They point their anger at my guiltless head , But wage the rifing war by deep device , And turn its fury on the crafty . Mice . You Your king directs the way ; my thoughts , elate BATTLE OF THE FROGS , & c . 43.
Page 44
... thoughts , elate With hopes of conquest , form designs of fate . Where high the banks their vedant furface heave , And the steep fides confine the fleeping wave , There , near the margin , clad in armour bright , Suftain the first ...
... thoughts , elate With hopes of conquest , form designs of fate . Where high the banks their vedant furface heave , And the steep fides confine the fleeping wave , There , near the margin , clad in armour bright , Suftain the first ...
Page 55
... thought , my fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the strains . Indulgent nurse of every tender gale , Parent of flowerets , old Arcadia , hail ! Here in the cool my limbs at ease I spread , Here let thy poplars ...
... thought , my fancy feeks the plains , And turns me fhepherd while I hear the strains . Indulgent nurse of every tender gale , Parent of flowerets , old Arcadia , hail ! Here in the cool my limbs at ease I spread , Here let thy poplars ...
Page 73
... thought it nigh . My fpring , my years of pleasure fleet , And all their beauties die . In age I fearch , aud only find A poor unfruitful gain , Grave wisdom stalking flow behind , Opprefs'd with loads of pain . My ignorance could once ...
... thought it nigh . My fpring , my years of pleasure fleet , And all their beauties die . In age I fearch , aud only find A poor unfruitful gain , Grave wisdom stalking flow behind , Opprefs'd with loads of pain . My ignorance could once ...
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