Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - English poetry |
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... by despotism's hand , As dwell at large in Britain's charter'd land . B. No. Freedom has a thousand charms to show , That slaves , however contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , 14 TABLE TALK .
... by despotism's hand , As dwell at large in Britain's charter'd land . B. No. Freedom has a thousand charms to show , That slaves , however contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , 14 TABLE TALK .
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William Cowper. The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , that nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening and wider opening on her view , She ventures onward with a prosperous force ...
William Cowper. The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth , that nature meant she should attain ; The varied fields of science , ever new , Opening and wider opening on her view , She ventures onward with a prosperous force ...
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... beneath his hand , ( A dire effect , by one of nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene To throw this dark displeasure over the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war ...
... beneath his hand , ( A dire effect , by one of nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene To throw this dark displeasure over the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war ...
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... beneath them , and heaven roars above ; But nothing scares them from the course they love : To the lascivious pipe and wanton song , That charm down fear , they frolic it along , With ' mad rapidity and unconcern , Down to the gulph ...
... beneath them , and heaven roars above ; But nothing scares them from the course they love : To the lascivious pipe and wanton song , That charm down fear , they frolic it along , With ' mad rapidity and unconcern , Down to the gulph ...
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... beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , sway , The mind , released from too constrained a nerve , Flew to its first position with a spring , That made the vaulted roofs of pleasure ring . His court , the ...
... beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , sway , The mind , released from too constrained a nerve , Flew to its first position with a spring , That made the vaulted roofs of pleasure ring . His court , the ...
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Page 423 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Page 417 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew. Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' ' Good lack,' quoth he — ' yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Page 419 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 298 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Page 322 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 431 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Page 304 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Page 375 - All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart! / Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Page 320 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 414 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.