Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1788 |
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Page 16
... meets it paffes swiftly by , The boorifh driver leaning o'er his team Vocif'rous , and impatient of delay . Nor less attractive is the woodland feene , Diversified Diverfify'd with trees of ev'ry growth , Alike , yet 16 Book i . THE TASK .
... meets it paffes swiftly by , The boorifh driver leaning o'er his team Vocif'rous , and impatient of delay . Nor less attractive is the woodland feene , Diversified Diverfify'd with trees of ev'ry growth , Alike , yet 16 Book i . THE TASK .
Page 25
... less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tastelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and fatiates , and makes languid life A pedler's pack , that bows the bearer down . Health fuffers , and the ...
... less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tastelefs , of the fame repeated joys , That palls and fatiates , and makes languid life A pedler's pack , that bows the bearer down . Health fuffers , and the ...
Page 27
... their beauties fade ; the weary fight , Too well acquainted with their smiles , flides off Faftidious , seeking less familiar fcenes . Then Then fnug inclofures in the fhelter'd vale , Where frequent Book i . 27 THE SOFA .
... their beauties fade ; the weary fight , Too well acquainted with their smiles , flides off Faftidious , seeking less familiar fcenes . Then Then fnug inclofures in the fhelter'd vale , Where frequent Book i . 27 THE SOFA .
Page 53
... less , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them , Tremble and be amazed at thine escape Far guiltier England , left he spare not thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that checquer life ...
... less , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them , Tremble and be amazed at thine escape Far guiltier England , left he spare not thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that checquer life ...
Page 60
... less , Than by the labor and the skill it coft , Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleafing , and that steal away the thought With fuch addrefs , from themes of fad import , That loft in his own mufings , happy man ! 9 That 60 Book ...
... less , Than by the labor and the skill it coft , Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleafing , and that steal away the thought With fuch addrefs , from themes of fad import , That loft in his own mufings , happy man ! 9 That 60 Book ...
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