Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... mankind , Is worth , with all its gold and glitt'ring ftore , Just what the toy will fell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occafions of difpenfing good , How feldom used , how little understood ! To pour in virtue's lap her juft reward ...
... mankind , Is worth , with all its gold and glitt'ring ftore , Just what the toy will fell for , and no more . Oh ! bright occafions of difpenfing good , How feldom used , how little understood ! To pour in virtue's lap her juft reward ...
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... mankind . His form robuft and of elaftic tone , Proportion'd well , half mufcle and half bone , Supplies with warm activity and force A mind well lodg'd , and mafculine of course . Hence liberty , fweet liberty infpires , And keeps ...
... mankind . His form robuft and of elaftic tone , Proportion'd well , half mufcle and half bone , Supplies with warm activity and force A mind well lodg'd , and mafculine of course . Hence liberty , fweet liberty infpires , And keeps ...
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... , undertake The nobleft caufe mankind can have at ftake , Religion , virtue , truth , whate'er we call A bleffing , freedom is the pledge of all . Oh Oh liberty ! the pris'ner's pleafing dream , The poet's TABLE 15 TALK .
... , undertake The nobleft caufe mankind can have at ftake , Religion , virtue , truth , whate'er we call A bleffing , freedom is the pledge of all . Oh Oh liberty ! the pris'ner's pleafing dream , The poet's TABLE 15 TALK .
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... foul exalted above earth , a mind Skill'd in the characters that form mankind ; And as the fun in rifing beauty drefs'd , Looks to the weftward from the dappled eaft And And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet 36 TABLE TALK .
... foul exalted above earth , a mind Skill'd in the characters that form mankind ; And as the fun in rifing beauty drefs'd , Looks to the weftward from the dappled eaft And And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet 36 TABLE TALK .
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... Mankind to share in the divine delight ; Distorted from its use and just design , To make the pitiful poffeffor fhine ; To purchase at the fool - frequented fair Of vanity , a wreath for self to wear , Is profanation of the basest kind ...
... Mankind to share in the divine delight ; Distorted from its use and just design , To make the pitiful poffeffor fhine ; To purchase at the fool - frequented fair Of vanity , a wreath for self to wear , Is profanation of the basest kind ...
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