Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 pages |
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... grace , that age would gladly keep ; A tooth or auburn lock , and by degrees Their length and colour from the locks they spare ; The elastic spring of an unwearied foot , That mounts the ftile with ease , or leaps the fence , That play ...
... grace , that age would gladly keep ; A tooth or auburn lock , and by degrees Their length and colour from the locks they spare ; The elastic spring of an unwearied foot , That mounts the ftile with ease , or leaps the fence , That play ...
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... into the clouds ; Difplaying on its varied fide the grace Of hedge - row beauties numberless , square tower , Tall fpire , from which the found of cheerful bells Juft undulates upon the listening ear , Groves , heaths 8 BOOK I. THE TASK .
... into the clouds ; Difplaying on its varied fide the grace Of hedge - row beauties numberless , square tower , Tall fpire , from which the found of cheerful bells Juft undulates upon the listening ear , Groves , heaths 8 BOOK I. THE TASK .
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... grace to guilty men . Behold the picture ! -Is it like ? -Like whom ? The things that mount the roftrum with a skip , And then fkip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry - hem ; and reading what they never wrote , Juft fifteen minutes ...
... grace to guilty men . Behold the picture ! -Is it like ? -Like whom ? The things that mount the roftrum with a skip , And then fkip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry - hem ; and reading what they never wrote , Juft fifteen minutes ...
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... wisdom short Of man's occafions , when in him refide Grace , knowledge , comfort - an unfathomed ftore ! How oft , when Paul has served us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully , preached ! Men 62 BOOK IL . THF TAK .
... wisdom short Of man's occafions , when in him refide Grace , knowledge , comfort - an unfathomed ftore ! How oft , when Paul has served us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully , preached ! Men 62 BOOK IL . THF TAK .
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... . So potent is the spell , That none , decoyed into that fatal ring , Unless by heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wife ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit 3 66 BOOK II . THE TASK .
... . So potent is the spell , That none , decoyed into that fatal ring , Unless by heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wife ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit 3 66 BOOK II . THE TASK .
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