Poems, Nide 1J. Johnson, 1782 - 359 sivua |
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Sivu 11
... , tho ' worth the fearch , may yet elude Conjecture and remark , however fhrewd . They take , perhaps , a well - directed aim , Who feek it in his climate and his frame . Lib'ral Lib'ral in all things elfe , yet nature here With ( 11 )
... , tho ' worth the fearch , may yet elude Conjecture and remark , however fhrewd . They take , perhaps , a well - directed aim , Who feek it in his climate and his frame . Lib'ral Lib'ral in all things elfe , yet nature here With ( 11 )
Sivu 28
... Perhaps fome bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there , Or having whelp'd a prologue with great pains , Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdash'd with many a stroke , An art ...
... Perhaps fome bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there , Or having whelp'd a prologue with great pains , Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdash'd with many a stroke , An art ...
Sivu 34
... a spark , Sufficient to redeem the modern race From total night and abfolute difgrace . While fervile trick and imitative knack Confine the million in the beaten track , Perhaps Perhaps fome courfer who difdains the road , Snuffs up ( 34 )
... a spark , Sufficient to redeem the modern race From total night and abfolute difgrace . While fervile trick and imitative knack Confine the million in the beaten track , Perhaps Perhaps fome courfer who difdains the road , Snuffs up ( 34 )
Sivu 35
William Cowper. Perhaps fome courfer who difdains the road , Snuffs up the wind and flings himself abroad . Cotemporaries all furpafs'd , fee one , Short his career , indeed , but ably run . Churchill , himself unconfcious of his pow'rs ...
William Cowper. Perhaps fome courfer who difdains the road , Snuffs up the wind and flings himself abroad . Cotemporaries all furpafs'd , fee one , Short his career , indeed , but ably run . Churchill , himself unconfcious of his pow'rs ...
Sivu 48
... perhaps as fweet . Will not the ficklieft fheep of ev'ry flock , Refort to this example as a rock , There stand and justify the foul abuse Of fabbath hours , with plaufible excufe ? If apoftolic gravity be free To play the fool on ...
... perhaps as fweet . Will not the ficklieft fheep of ev'ry flock , Refort to this example as a rock , There stand and justify the foul abuse Of fabbath hours , with plaufible excufe ? If apoftolic gravity be free To play the fool on ...
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Sivu 333 - He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Sivu 307 - 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.
Sivu 339 - LITTLE inmate, full of mirth Chirping on my kitchen hearth. Wheresoe'er be thine abode, Always harbinger of good, Pay me for thy warm retreat With a song more soft and sweet ; In return thou shalt receive Such a strain as I can give.
Sivu 71 - Hear the just law — the judgment of the skies! He that hates truth shall be the dupe of lies ; And he that -will be cheated to the last, Delusions strong as hell shall bind him fast.
Sivu 89 - 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.
Sivu 308 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Sivu 102 - Since the dear hour, that brought me to thy foot, And cut up all my follies by the root, I never trusted in an arm but thine, Nor hoped but in thy righteousness divine...
Sivu 170 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Sivu 317 - 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.
Sivu 89 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...