The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6J. Johnson, 1810 - Poetry |
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... thoughts , and pious vowes , He kist the ground assoone as he arose , When watchfull Digby , who among his foes Had wanderd vnsuspected all the night , Reports that Richard is prepar'd to fight . Long since the king had thought it time ...
... thoughts , and pious vowes , He kist the ground assoone as he arose , When watchfull Digby , who among his foes Had wanderd vnsuspected all the night , Reports that Richard is prepar'd to fight . Long since the king had thought it time ...
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... thought . These lines I write not to remoue Vnited soules from serious loue : The best attempts by mortals made , Reflect on things which quickly fade ; Yet neuer will I men perswade To leaue affections , where may shine Impressions of ...
... thought . These lines I write not to remoue Vnited soules from serious loue : The best attempts by mortals made , Reflect on things which quickly fade ; Yet neuer will I men perswade To leaue affections , where may shine Impressions of ...
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... thought it fit , T'exalt a spirit to a body knit , I would confesse I spent my time amisse , When I was slow to giue due praise to this . Now when all weepe , it is my time to sing , Thus from her ashes must my poem spring Though in the ...
... thought it fit , T'exalt a spirit to a body knit , I would confesse I spent my time amisse , When I was slow to giue due praise to this . Now when all weepe , it is my time to sing , Thus from her ashes must my poem spring Though in the ...
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... thought dead men , whilst we remain among the living , it is only poetry that can make us be thought living men , when we lie among the dead ; and therefore I think it unequal , to thrust them out of our cities , that call us .. out of ...
... thought dead men , whilst we remain among the living , it is only poetry that can make us be thought living men , when we lie among the dead ; and therefore I think it unequal , to thrust them out of our cities , that call us .. out of ...
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... thought was ever harboured ; But saintly heroes are for ever su'd To keep an everlasting Sabbath's rest ; Still wishing that , of what th ' are still possest ; Enjoying but one joy , but one of all joys best . Here , when the ruin of ...
... thought was ever harboured ; But saintly heroes are for ever su'd To keep an everlasting Sabbath's rest ; Still wishing that , of what th ' are still possest ; Enjoying but one joy , but one of all joys best . Here , when the ruin of ...
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