Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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... or for use , Save their own painted skins , our fires had none . As yet black breeches were not ; satin smooth , VOL . II . * See Poems , vol . i . B Or velvet foft , or plush with fhaggy pile : THE TASK, in Six Books The Sofa.
... or for use , Save their own painted skins , our fires had none . As yet black breeches were not ; satin smooth , VOL . II . * See Poems , vol . i . B Or velvet foft , or plush with fhaggy pile : THE TASK, in Six Books The Sofa.
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... winter fills again . The folded gates would bar my progress now , But that the lord of this enclosed demefne , Communicative of the good he owns , * See the foregoing note . Admits me to a fhare ; the guiltless eye . BOOK I. 15 THE SOFA .
... winter fills again . The folded gates would bar my progress now , But that the lord of this enclosed demefne , Communicative of the good he owns , * See the foregoing note . Admits me to a fhare ; the guiltless eye . BOOK I. 15 THE SOFA .
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... see him sweating over his bread Before he eats it ' Tis the primal curse , - But foftened into mercy ; made the pledge Of cheerful days , and nights without a groan . By ceaseless action all that is fubfifts . Conftant rotation of the ...
... see him sweating over his bread Before he eats it ' Tis the primal curse , - But foftened into mercy ; made the pledge Of cheerful days , and nights without a groan . By ceaseless action all that is fubfifts . Conftant rotation of the ...
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... see thee weep , and thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country : thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and though apt to err ...
... see thee weep , and thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country : thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and though apt to err ...
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... See then the quiver broken and decayed , In which are kept our arrows ! Rufting there In wild diforder , and unfit for use , } What wonder if , discharged into the world , They shame their shooters with a random flight , Their points ...
... See then the quiver broken and decayed , In which are kept our arrows ! Rufting there In wild diforder , and unfit for use , } What wonder if , discharged into the world , They shame their shooters with a random flight , Their points ...
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Page 317 - Wouldst softly speak and stroke my head and smile — Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here? I would not trust my heart : the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
Page 197 - The night was winter in his roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Page 119 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 220 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 41 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 228 - To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. All creatures worship man, and all mankind One Lord, one Father.
Page 121 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat. To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 354 - Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols...
Page 328 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Page 185 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.