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Page 121
... happy prime , Droop , and fade , in little time . Spring returns , but not our bloom ; Still ' tis winter in the tomb . 10 15 EPITAPH ON JOHNSON HERE Johnson lies , a sage by all allowed , Whom to have bred , may well make England proud ...
... happy prime , Droop , and fade , in little time . Spring returns , but not our bloom ; Still ' tis winter in the tomb . 10 15 EPITAPH ON JOHNSON HERE Johnson lies , a sage by all allowed , Whom to have bred , may well make England proud ...
Page 138
... happy work ! Which not e'en critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention , while I read , Fast bound in chains of silence , which the fair , Though eloquent themselves , yet fear to break ; What is it , but a map of busy life ...
... happy work ! Which not e'en critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention , while I read , Fast bound in chains of silence , which the fair , Though eloquent themselves , yet fear to break ; What is it , but a map of busy life ...
Page 144
... happy are their idle hours . Even misses , at whose age their mothers wore The backstring and the bib , assume the dress Of womanhood , sit pupils in the school Of card - devoted Time , and , night by night , Placed at some vacant ...
... happy are their idle hours . Even misses , at whose age their mothers wore The backstring and the bib , assume the dress Of womanhood , sit pupils in the school Of card - devoted Time , and , night by night , Placed at some vacant ...
Page 149
... happy ! and in my account denied That sensibility of pain with which Refinement is endued , thrice happy thou . Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpaired . The learned finger never need ...
... happy ! and in my account denied That sensibility of pain with which Refinement is endued , thrice happy thou . Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpaired . The learned finger never need ...
Page 165
... Happy His relish ' Tis morning ; and the sun , with ruddy orb Ascending , fires the horizon ; while the clouds That crowd away before the driving wind , More ardent as the disk emerges more , Resemble most some city in a blaze , Seen ...
... Happy His relish ' Tis morning ; and the sun , with ruddy orb Ascending , fires the horizon ; while the clouds That crowd away before the driving wind , More ardent as the disk emerges more , Resemble most some city in a blaze , Seen ...
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