Poems: The task, a poem, ... to which are added, by the same author, an Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and the History of John Gilpin. 2J. Johnson, 1785 |
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Side 22
... clear exemption from its own defects . A fparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The vet'ran fhows , and gracing a grey beard With youthful fimiles , defcends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden ...
... clear exemption from its own defects . A fparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The vet'ran fhows , and gracing a grey beard With youthful fimiles , defcends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden ...
Side 53
... clear , And none than we more guilty . But where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxious , God may chuse his mark . May punish , if he pleafe , the lefs , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them ...
... clear , And none than we more guilty . But where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxious , God may chuse his mark . May punish , if he pleafe , the lefs , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them ...
Side 62
... ornament of virtue's caufe . There stands the meffenger of truth . There ftands The legate of the fkies . His theme divine , His office facred , his credentials clear . By By him , the violated law speaks out Its thunders [ 62 ]
... ornament of virtue's caufe . There stands the meffenger of truth . There ftands The legate of the fkies . His theme divine , His office facred , his credentials clear . By By him , the violated law speaks out Its thunders [ 62 ]
Side 105
... clear , and argument exact ? That makes a minister in holy things The joy of many and the dread of more , His name a theme for praise and for reproach ? - That while it gives us worth in God's account , Depreciates and undoes us in our ...
... clear , and argument exact ? That makes a minister in holy things The joy of many and the dread of more , His name a theme for praise and for reproach ? - That while it gives us worth in God's account , Depreciates and undoes us in our ...
Side 110
... feem To him that leads it , wife and to be prais'd ; But wifdom is a pearl with moft fuccefs Sought in ftill water , and beneath clear fkies . He that is ever occupied in ftorms , Of Or dives not for it , or brings up instead [ 10 ]
... feem To him that leads it , wife and to be prais'd ; But wifdom is a pearl with moft fuccefs Sought in ftill water , and beneath clear fkies . He that is ever occupied in ftorms , Of Or dives not for it , or brings up instead [ 10 ]
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