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 10
... must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily , and whose novelty furvives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years . Praise justly due to those that I describe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural founds Exhilarate the fpirit , and ...
... must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily , and whose novelty furvives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years . Praise justly due to those that I describe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural founds Exhilarate the fpirit , and ...
Side 11
... must emulate in vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that fwim fublime In still repeated circles , screaming loud , The jay , the pie , and ev'n the boding owl That hails the rifing moon , have charms for me . Sounds Sounds inharmonious ...
... must emulate in vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that fwim fublime In still repeated circles , screaming loud , The jay , the pie , and ev'n the boding owl That hails the rifing moon , have charms for me . Sounds Sounds inharmonious ...
Side 36
... must be brib'd to compass earth again By other hopes and richer fruits than yours . But though true worth and virtue , in the mild And genial foil of cultivated life Thrive moft , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in cities ...
... must be brib'd to compass earth again By other hopes and richer fruits than yours . But though true worth and virtue , in the mild And genial foil of cultivated life Thrive moft , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in cities ...
Side 39
... must hang ; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces , efcapes . Nor is it well , nor can it come to good , That through profane and infidel contempt Of holy writ , fhe has prefum'd t'annul ...
... must hang ; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces , efcapes . Nor is it well , nor can it come to good , That through profane and infidel contempt Of holy writ , fhe has prefum'd t'annul ...
Side 52
... must die . Storms rife t ' o'erwhelm him : or if ftormy winds . Rife not , the waters of the deep shall rife , And needing none affiftance of the ftorm , Shall roll themselves afhore , and reach him there . The The earth fhall shake him ...
... must die . Storms rife t ' o'erwhelm him : or if ftormy winds . Rife not , the waters of the deep shall rife , And needing none affiftance of the ftorm , Shall roll themselves afhore , and reach him there . The The earth fhall shake him ...
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