Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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Page 25
... wafte ; there spends the livelong day , And there , unless when charity forbids , The livelong night . A tattered apron hides , Worn as a cloak , and hardly hides , a gown More tattered still ; and both but ill conceal A bofom heaved ...
... wafte ; there spends the livelong day , And there , unless when charity forbids , The livelong night . A tattered apron hides , Worn as a cloak , and hardly hides , a gown More tattered still ; and both but ill conceal A bofom heaved ...
Page 45
... wafte his fairest works . The very elements , though each be meant The minifter of man , to ferve his wants , Conspire against him . With his breath he draws A plague into his blood ; and cannot use Life's neceifary means , but he must ...
... wafte his fairest works . The very elements , though each be meant The minifter of man , to ferve his wants , Conspire against him . With his breath he draws A plague into his blood ; and cannot use Life's neceifary means , but he must ...
Page 94
... wafte it , and aware that human life Is but a loan to be repaid with use , When He fhall call his debtors to account , From whom are all our bleffings ; bufinefs finds E'en here : while fedulous I seek to improve , * See the note at the ...
... wafte it , and aware that human life Is but a loan to be repaid with use , When He fhall call his debtors to account , From whom are all our bleffings ; bufinefs finds E'en here : while fedulous I seek to improve , * See the note at the ...
Page 256
... wafte of philofophic pains ; But truths , on which depends our main concern , That ' tis our fhame and mifery not to learn , Shine by the fide of every path we tread With fuch a luftre , he that runs may read . " Tis true that , if to ...
... wafte of philofophic pains ; But truths , on which depends our main concern , That ' tis our fhame and mifery not to learn , Shine by the fide of every path we tread With fuch a luftre , he that runs may read . " Tis true that , if to ...
Page 262
... wafte , Should prove your ruin , and his own at last ; Train him in public with a mob of boys , Childish in mifchief only and in noise , Elfe of a mannish growth , and five in ten In infidelity and lewdness men . There fhall he learn ...
... wafte , Should prove your ruin , and his own at last ; Train him in public with a mob of boys , Childish in mifchief only and in noise , Elfe of a mannish growth , and five in ten In infidelity and lewdness men . There fhall he learn ...
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