Poems, Svazek 1J. Johnson, 1798 |
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Strana vii
... inspire it with stable peace and folid hope , and furnish those motives and prospects , which , in the present state of things , are absolutely necessary to produce a conduct worthy of a rational creature , PREFACE , vii.
... inspire it with stable peace and folid hope , and furnish those motives and prospects , which , in the present state of things , are absolutely necessary to produce a conduct worthy of a rational creature , PREFACE , vii.
Strana ix
... present life , and a fovereign antidote against the fear of death . Sed hactenus hæc . Some smaller pieces upon less important subjects close the volume . Not one of them I believe was written with a view i ix PREFACE .
... present life , and a fovereign antidote against the fear of death . Sed hactenus hæc . Some smaller pieces upon less important subjects close the volume . Not one of them I believe was written with a view i ix PREFACE .
Strana 19
... , Babylon , and ancient Rome , Speak to the present times , and times to come ; They cry aloud in ev'ry careless ear , Stop , while ye may ; fufpend your mad career ; O learn , from our example and our fate , C2 TABLE TALK . 19.
... , Babylon , and ancient Rome , Speak to the present times , and times to come ; They cry aloud in ev'ry careless ear , Stop , while ye may ; fufpend your mad career ; O learn , from our example and our fate , C2 TABLE TALK . 19.
Strana 37
... present , or in prospect , meet his fight ; Those open on the spot their honey'd store ; Thefe call him loudly to pursuit of more . His unexhaufted mine the fordid vice Avarice shows , and virtue is the price . Here various motives his ...
... present , or in prospect , meet his fight ; Those open on the spot their honey'd store ; Thefe call him loudly to pursuit of more . His unexhaufted mine the fordid vice Avarice shows , and virtue is the price . Here various motives his ...
Strana 74
... present joy . So fares it with the finner , when he feels A growing dread of vengeance at his heels : His confcience , like a glassy lake before , Lash'd into foaming waves , begins to roar ; The law , grown clamorous , though filent ...
... present joy . So fares it with the finner , when he feels A growing dread of vengeance at his heels : His confcience , like a glassy lake before , Lash'd into foaming waves , begins to roar ; The law , grown clamorous , though filent ...
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Strana 311 - The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it) here shines on me still the same.
Strana 263 - 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.
Strana 205 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Strana 313 - 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 272 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Strana 173 - When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.
Strana 313 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Strana 280 - Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far...
Strana 311 - 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.