Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1787 |
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... looks on ; If monarchy confift in fuch bafe things , fighing , I fay again , I pity kings ! To be fufpected , thwarted , and withstood , Ev'n when he labours for his country's good , To fee a band call'd patriot for no caufe , But that ...
... looks on ; If monarchy confift in fuch bafe things , fighing , I fay again , I pity kings ! To be fufpected , thwarted , and withstood , Ev'n when he labours for his country's good , To fee a band call'd patriot for no caufe , But that ...
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... look big , and talk away . Born in a climate fofter far than our's , Not form'd like us , with fuch Herculean pow'rs , The Frenchman , easy , debonair and brisk , Give him his lafs , his fiddle and his frisk , Is always happy , reign ...
... look big , and talk away . Born in a climate fofter far than our's , Not form'd like us , with fuch Herculean pow'rs , The Frenchman , easy , debonair and brisk , Give him his lafs , his fiddle and his frisk , Is always happy , reign ...
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... look his mafter in the face , When the rude rabbles watch - word was , deftroy , And blazing London feem'd a second Troy , Liberty blush'd and hung her drooping head , Beheld their progress with the deepest dread , Blush'd that effects ...
... look his mafter in the face , When the rude rabbles watch - word was , deftroy , And blazing London feem'd a second Troy , Liberty blush'd and hung her drooping head , Beheld their progress with the deepest dread , Blush'd that effects ...
Page 18
... 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.
... 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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... looks to diftant ftorms , He hears the thunder ere the tempeft low'rs , And arm'd with ftrength furpaffing human pow'rs , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his foul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the ...
... looks to diftant ftorms , He hears the thunder ere the tempeft low'rs , And arm'd with ftrength furpaffing human pow'rs , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his foul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the ...
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