Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1787 |
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... mind well lodg'd , and masculine of courfe . Hence liberty , fweet liberty infpires , And keeps alive his fierce but noble fires . Patient of conftitutional controul , He bears it with meek manliness of foul , But if authority grow ...
... mind well lodg'd , and masculine of courfe . Hence liberty , fweet liberty infpires , And keeps alive his fierce but noble fires . Patient of conftitutional controul , He bears it with meek manliness of foul , But if authority grow ...
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... mind attains beneath her happy reign , The growth that nature meant she should attain . The varied fields of fcience , ever new , Op'ning and wider op'ning on her view , She ventures onward with a profp'rous force , While no bafe fear ...
... mind attains beneath her happy reign , The growth that nature meant she should attain . The varied fields of fcience , ever new , Op'ning and wider op'ning on her view , She ventures onward with a profp'rous force , While no bafe fear ...
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... minds , Communicates with joy the good she finds . Courage in arms , and ever prompt to fhow His manly forehead to the fiercest foe ; Glorious in war , but for the fake of peace , His fpirits rifing as his toils increase , Guards well ...
... minds , Communicates with joy the good she finds . Courage in arms , and ever prompt to fhow His manly forehead to the fiercest foe ; Glorious in war , but for the fake of peace , His fpirits rifing as his toils increase , Guards well ...
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... mind that flumbers fweetly in her snares , To ftoop to tyranny's ufurp'd command , And bend her polish'd neck beneath his hand , ( A dire effect , by one of nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its caufe ) But providence himself ...
... mind that flumbers fweetly in her snares , To ftoop to tyranny's ufurp'd command , And bend her polish'd neck beneath his hand , ( A dire effect , by one of nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its caufe ) But providence himself ...
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... mind that feels indeed the fire The mufe imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her foft attention claim , A tender fympathy ...
... mind that feels indeed the fire The mufe imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If human woes her foft attention claim , A tender fympathy ...
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