Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1788 |
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Page 51
... worth confume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone ; the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release E 2 From From all the rigors of reftraint , enjoy The terrors Book ii . THE 51 TIME - PIECE .
... worth confume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone ; the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release E 2 From From all the rigors of reftraint , enjoy The terrors Book ii . THE 51 TIME - PIECE .
Page 73
... worth , Preach it who might . Such was their love of truth , Their thirst of knowledge , and their candour too . And thus it is . The paftor , either vain By nature , or by flatt'ry made fo , taught To gaze at his own fplendor , and t ...
... worth , Preach it who might . Such was their love of truth , Their thirst of knowledge , and their candour too . And thus it is . The paftor , either vain By nature , or by flatt'ry made fo , taught To gaze at his own fplendor , and t ...
Page 82
... worth- That blush'd at its own praife ; and prefs the youth Close to his fide that pleas'd him . Learning grew Beneath his care , a thriving vig'rous plant ; The mind was well inform'd , the paffions held Subordinate , and diligence was ...
... worth- That blush'd at its own praife ; and prefs the youth Close to his fide that pleas'd him . Learning grew Beneath his care , a thriving vig'rous plant ; The mind was well inform'd , the paffions held Subordinate , and diligence was ...
Page 85
... worth , A man of letters , and of manners too . Of manners sweet as virtue always wears , When gay good - nature dreffes her in fmiles . He grac'd a college * , in which order yet Ben'et Coll , Cambridge , G 3 Was Was facred ; and was ...
... worth , A man of letters , and of manners too . Of manners sweet as virtue always wears , When gay good - nature dreffes her in fmiles . He grac'd a college * , in which order yet Ben'et Coll , Cambridge , G 3 Was Was facred ; and was ...
Page 96
... worth of what the mimics with fuch care , And thus gives virtue indirect applause ; But she has burnt her mask , not needed here , Where vice has fuch allowance , that her shifts And fpecious femblances have loft their use . I was a ...
... worth of what the mimics with fuch care , And thus gives virtue indirect applause ; But she has burnt her mask , not needed here , Where vice has fuch allowance , that her shifts And fpecious femblances have loft their use . I was a ...
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