Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... live , the courtly laureat pays His quit - rent ode , his pepper - corn of praise ; And many a dunce , whose fingers itch to write , Adds , as he can , his tributary mite : A fubject's faults a fubject may proclaim , A monarch's errors ...
... live , the courtly laureat pays His quit - rent ode , his pepper - corn of praise ; And many a dunce , whose fingers itch to write , Adds , as he can , his tributary mite : A fubject's faults a fubject may proclaim , A monarch's errors ...
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... live yet ; One fad epiftle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind . ' Tis granted , and no plainer truth appears , Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind , impreffible and foft , with ease ...
... live yet ; One fad epiftle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind . ' Tis granted , and no plainer truth appears , Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind , impreffible and foft , with ease ...
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... LIVE ! Too many , fhock'd at what should charm them most , Despise the plain direction , and are loft . Heav'n on fuch terms ! ( they cry , with proud difdain ) Incredible , impoffible , and vain ! — Rebel , because ' tis easy to obey ...
... LIVE ! Too many , fhock'd at what should charm them most , Despise the plain direction , and are loft . Heav'n on fuch terms ! ( they cry , with proud difdain ) Incredible , impoffible , and vain ! — Rebel , because ' tis easy to obey ...
Page 74
... I freely give : The book fhall teach you - read , believe , and live ! ' Tis done - the raging ftorm is heard no more , Mercy receives him on her peaceful thore ; And Juftice , guardian of the dread command , Drops 74 TRUTH .
... I freely give : The book fhall teach you - read , believe , and live ! ' Tis done - the raging ftorm is heard no more , Mercy receives him on her peaceful thore ; And Juftice , guardian of the dread command , Drops 74 TRUTH .
Page 76
... if not gay ; - Shuffling her threads about the live - long day , Juft earns a fcanty pittance ; and at night Lies down fecure , her heart and pocket light : Stothard Del . Published , Feb.1.1798 , by J.Johnson London 76 TRUTH .
... if not gay ; - Shuffling her threads about the live - long day , Juft earns a fcanty pittance ; and at night Lies down fecure , her heart and pocket light : Stothard Del . Published , Feb.1.1798 , by J.Johnson London 76 TRUTH .
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Page 77 - Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 317 - Faithful remembrancer of one so dear, 0 welcome guest, though unexpected here! Who bidst me honour with an artless song, Affectionate, a mother lost so long. 1 will obey, not willingly alone, But gladly as the precept were her own: And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she.
Page 265 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 265 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 319 - Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapt In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet capt, 'Tis now become a history little known, That once we call'd the past'ral house our own.
Page 282 - Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song; For 'twas the...
Page 265 - But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot.
Page 159 - Tis thus Omnipotence his law fulfils, And vengeance executes what justice wills. Again— the band of commerce was designed To associate all the branches of mankind ; And if a boundless plenty be the robe, Trade is the golden girdle of the globe.
Page 319 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 196 - He says but little, and that little said Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home...