Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... , ever new , Op'ning and wider op'ning on her view , She ventures onward with a profp'rous force , While no bafe fear impedes her in her course . Religion , Religion , richest favour of the skies , Stands most 14 TABLE TALK .
... , ever new , Op'ning and wider op'ning on her view , She ventures onward with a profp'rous force , While no bafe fear impedes her in her course . Religion , Religion , richest favour of the skies , Stands most 14 TABLE TALK .
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William Cowper. Religion , richest favour of the skies , Stands most reveal'd before the freeman's eyes ; No fhades of fuperftition blot the day , Liberty chaces all that gloom away ; The foul , emancipated , unopprefs'd , Free to prove ...
William Cowper. Religion , richest favour of the skies , Stands most reveal'd before the freeman's eyes ; No fhades of fuperftition blot the day , Liberty chaces all that gloom away ; The foul , emancipated , unopprefs'd , Free to prove ...
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... skies , Is but the fire without the facrifice . The ftream that feeds the well - fpring of the heart Not more invigorate's life's noblest part , Than virtue quickens with a warmth divine , The pow'rs that fin has brought to a decline ...
... skies , Is but the fire without the facrifice . The ftream that feeds the well - fpring of the heart Not more invigorate's life's noblest part , Than virtue quickens with a warmth divine , The pow'rs that fin has brought to a decline ...
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... skies ? Ye devotees to your ador'd employ , Enthusiasts , drunk with an unreal joy , Love makes the mufic of the bleft above , Heav'ns harmony is univerfal love ; And earthly founds , though sweet and well combin'd , And lenient as foft ...
... skies ? Ye devotees to your ador'd employ , Enthusiasts , drunk with an unreal joy , Love makes the mufic of the bleft above , Heav'ns harmony is univerfal love ; And earthly founds , though sweet and well combin'd , And lenient as foft ...
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... skies ! He that hates truth fhall be the dupe of lies . And he that will be cheated to the last , Delufions , ftrong as hell , fhall bind him fast , But if the wand'rer his mistake discern , Judge his own ways , and figh for a return ...
... skies ! He that hates truth fhall be the dupe of lies . And he that will be cheated to the last , Delufions , ftrong as hell , fhall bind him fast , But if the wand'rer his mistake discern , Judge his own ways , and figh for a return ...
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