Poems, Volum 1W. Lewis, 1814 - 480 sider |
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Side 27
... sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris - dance of verse . B. Thus reputation is a spur to wit , And some wits flag through fear of losing it . Give me ...
... sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris - dance of verse . B. Thus reputation is a spur to wit , And some wits flag through fear of losing it . Give me ...
Side 28
... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ...
... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ...
Side 45
... sounds , though sweet and well combin❜d , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave vice and folly unsubdu'd behind . Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod ...
... sounds , though sweet and well combin❜d , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave vice and folly unsubdu'd behind . Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod ...
Side 46
... sounds - Your Rev'rence , or Your Grace ? No. But his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last , What atheists call him - a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave , A fiddling ...
... sounds - Your Rev'rence , or Your Grace ? No. But his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last , What atheists call him - a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave , A fiddling ...
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... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all : Kings are invited ; and , would kings obey , No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless ...
... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all : Kings are invited ; and , would kings obey , No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless ...
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