Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... cause , From ftrenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The fedentary stretch their lazy length When custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deferted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk ...
... cause , From ftrenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The fedentary stretch their lazy length When custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deferted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk ...
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... cause . For fuch immeafurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair F Sweet fmiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tastelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls ...
... cause . For fuch immeafurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair F Sweet fmiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tastelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls ...
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... cause , * Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , Or elfe vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of ...
... cause , * Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , Or elfe vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of ...
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... causes how they work By neceffary laws their fure effects , Of action and re - action . He has found The fource of the disease that nature feels , And bids the world take heart and banish fear , Thou fool ! will thy discov'ry of the cause ...
... causes how they work By neceffary laws their fure effects , Of action and re - action . He has found The fource of the disease that nature feels , And bids the world take heart and banish fear , Thou fool ! will thy discov'ry of the cause ...
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... cause of all , England , with all thy faults , I love thee still My country ! and while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found , Shall be constrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year ...
... cause of all , England , with all thy faults , I love thee still My country ! and while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found , Shall be constrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year ...
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