Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... call'd patriot for no cause ,. But that they catch at popular applause , Careless of all th ' anxiety he feels , Hook disappointment on the public wheels , With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Moft confident With 8 TABLE TA L K.
... call'd patriot for no cause ,. But that they catch at popular applause , Careless of all th ' anxiety he feels , Hook disappointment on the public wheels , With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Moft confident With 8 TABLE TA L K.
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William Cowper. With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Moft confident , when palpably most wrong , If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship , and may I be poor and free . To be the Table Talk of clubs up ftairs , To ...
William Cowper. With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Moft confident , when palpably most wrong , If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship , and may I be poor and free . To be the Table Talk of clubs up ftairs , To ...
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... tongue , I hear as mute as if a fyren fung . Or tell me if you can , what pow'r maintains A Briton's fcorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets caft in lead . B. The caufe , tho ...
... tongue , I hear as mute as if a fyren fung . Or tell me if you can , what pow'r maintains A Briton's fcorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets caft in lead . B. The caufe , tho ...
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... tongue enquires , how , where , or when , Though confcience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the facred cause In all its parts , times , miniftry and laws , Befpeaks # Bespeaks a land once christian , fall'n and loft ...
... tongue enquires , how , where , or when , Though confcience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the facred cause In all its parts , times , miniftry and laws , Befpeaks # Bespeaks a land once christian , fall'n and loft ...
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... tongue , That he who died below and reigns above , Infpires the fong , and that his name is love . For after all , if merely to beguile By flowing numbers and a flow'ry style , The tædium that the lazy rich endure , Which now and then ...
... tongue , That he who died below and reigns above , Infpires the fong , and that his name is love . For after all , if merely to beguile By flowing numbers and a flow'ry style , The tædium that the lazy rich endure , Which now and then ...
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