Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied fide the grace Of hedge - row beauties numberless , square tow'r , Tall fpire , from which the found of chearful bells Juft undulates upon the lift'ning ear ; Groves , heaths , and ...
... land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied fide the grace Of hedge - row beauties numberless , square tow'r , Tall fpire , from which the found of chearful bells Juft undulates upon the lift'ning ear ; Groves , heaths , and ...
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... land . There , from the fun - burnt hay - field , homeward creeps The loaded wain , while , lighten'd of its charge , The wain that meets it paffes swiftly by , The boorifh driver leaning o'er his team Vocif'rous , and impatient of ...
... land . There , from the fun - burnt hay - field , homeward creeps The loaded wain , while , lighten'd of its charge , The wain that meets it paffes swiftly by , The boorifh driver leaning o'er his team Vocif'rous , and impatient of ...
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... land , Now glitters in the fun , and now retires , As bashful , yet impatient to be feen . Hence the declivity is fharp and fhort , And fuch the re - afcent ; between them weeps A little Naļad her impov'rifh'd urn All fummer long ...
... land , Now glitters in the fun , and now retires , As bashful , yet impatient to be feen . Hence the declivity is fharp and fhort , And fuch the re - afcent ; between them weeps A little Naļad her impov'rifh'd urn All fummer long ...
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... land . In cities foul example on moft minds Begets its likenefs . Rank abundance breeds In grofs and pamper'd cities floth and luft , And And wontonnefs and gluttonous excefs . In cities , vice 36 Book i . THE TAS K.
... land . In cities foul example on moft minds Begets its likenefs . Rank abundance breeds In grofs and pamper'd cities floth and luft , And And wontonnefs and gluttonous excefs . In cities , vice 36 Book i . THE TAS K.
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... Lands interfected by a narrow frith Abhor each other . Mountains interpos'd , Make enemies of nations , who had elfe Like kindred drops been mingled into one . Thus man devotes his brother , and destroys ; And worse than all , and most ...
... Lands interfected by a narrow frith Abhor each other . Mountains interpos'd , Make enemies of nations , who had elfe Like kindred drops been mingled into one . Thus man devotes his brother , and destroys ; And worse than all , and most ...
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