Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1787 |
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... fires . Patient of conftitutional controul , He bears it with meek manliness of foul , But if authority grow wanton , woe To him that treads upon his free - born toe , One One ftep beyond the bound'ry of the laws Fires him 12 TABLE TALK .
... fires . Patient of conftitutional controul , He bears it with meek manliness of foul , But if authority grow wanton , woe To him that treads upon his free - born toe , One One ftep beyond the bound'ry of the laws Fires him 12 TABLE TALK .
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William Cowper. One ftep beyond the bound'ry of the laws Fires him at once in freedom's glorious cause . Thus proud prerogative , not much rever'd , Is feldom felt , though fometimes feen and heard ; And in his cage , like parrot fine ...
William Cowper. One ftep beyond the bound'ry of the laws Fires him at once in freedom's glorious cause . Thus proud prerogative , not much rever'd , Is feldom felt , though fometimes feen and heard ; And in his cage , like parrot fine ...
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... laws apply the needful curb To guard the peace that riot would disturb , And liberty preferv'd from wild excefs , Shall raise no feuds for armies to fupprefs . When tumult lately burft his prifon door , And fet Plebeian thoufands in a ...
... laws apply the needful curb To guard the peace that riot would disturb , And liberty preferv'd from wild excefs , Shall raise no feuds for armies to fupprefs . When tumult lately burft his prifon door , And fet Plebeian thoufands in a ...
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... authority and awe , Spoke from his lips , and in his looks , gave law . His fpeech , his form , his action , full of grace , And all his country beaming in his face , He He ftood , as fome inimitable hand Would strive to 18 TABLE TAL K.
... authority and awe , Spoke from his lips , and in his looks , gave law . His fpeech , his form , his action , full of grace , And all his country beaming in his face , He He ftood , as fome inimitable hand Would strive to 18 TABLE TAL K.
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... , where , or when , Though confcience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the facred cause In all its parts , times , miniftry and laws , Befpeaks Befpeaks a land once christian , fall'n and lost In 22 TABLE TAL K.
... , where , or when , Though confcience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the facred cause In all its parts , times , miniftry and laws , Befpeaks Befpeaks a land once christian , fall'n and lost In 22 TABLE TAL K.
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