Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1788 |
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... Human Frailty The Modern Patriot On obferving fome Names of little Note recorded in the BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA Report of an adjudged Cafe not to be found in any of the Books 310 311 313 314 315 151337 The Love of the World reproved ; or ...
... Human Frailty The Modern Patriot On obferving fome Names of little Note recorded in the BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA Report of an adjudged Cafe not to be found in any of the Books 310 311 313 314 315 151337 The Love of the World reproved ; or ...
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... human race , And not a 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 Befpeaks a land once ...
... human race , And not a 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 Befpeaks a land once ...
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... others never feel . If human woes her foft attention claim , Atender fympathy pervades the frame , She pours a fenfibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line . But But if a deed not tamely to be borne , TABLETAL K , ^ 25.
... others never feel . If human woes her foft attention claim , Atender fympathy pervades the frame , She pours a fenfibility divine Along the nerve of ev'ry feeling line . But But if a deed not tamely to be borne , TABLETAL K , ^ 25.
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... human pow'rs , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his foul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful name Of prophet and of poet was the fame , Hence British poets too the priesthood shar'd , And ev'ry ...
... human pow'rs , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his foul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful name Of prophet and of poet was the fame , Hence British poets too the priesthood shar'd , And ev'ry ...
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... human things , The feats of heroes and the wrath of kings , But still while virtue kindled his delight , The fong was moral , and fo far was right , ' Twas thus till luxury feduc'd the mind , To joys lefs innocent , as lefs refin'd ...
... human things , The feats of heroes and the wrath of kings , But still while virtue kindled his delight , The fong was moral , and fo far was right , ' Twas thus till luxury feduc'd the mind , To joys lefs innocent , as lefs refin'd ...
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