Poems, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1806 - English poetry |
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Page 157
... never heard in vain . Oh happy ; and in my account denied That sensibility of pain , with which Refinement is endued , thrice happy thou ! Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpaired . The ...
... never heard in vain . Oh happy ; and in my account denied That sensibility of pain , with which Refinement is endued , thrice happy thou ! Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpaired . The ...
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... never meant , was never used before , To buckram out the memory of a man . But hush ! -the muse perhaps is too severe ; And with a gravity beyond the size And measure of the offence , rebukes a deed Less 266 BOOK VI . THE TASK .
... never meant , was never used before , To buckram out the memory of a man . But hush ! -the muse perhaps is too severe ; And with a gravity beyond the size And measure of the offence , rebukes a deed Less 266 BOOK VI . THE TASK .
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... never seen a hare , to a hare that had never seen a spaniel . I did it with great caution , but there was no real need of it . Puss discovered no token of fear , nor Marquis the least symp- tom of hostility . There is therefore , it ...
... never seen a hare , to a hare that had never seen a spaniel . I did it with great caution , but there was no real need of it . Puss discovered no token of fear , nor Marquis the least symp- tom of hostility . There is therefore , it ...
Contents
THE TASK in Six Books | 1 |
Friendship 580 | 250 |
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for the year 1787 393 | 273 |
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