The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life |
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... hour , and ransack all the heart , Then soon your ill - placed confidence repay , Commence your lords , and govern , or betray . By numbers here , from shame and censure free , All crimes are safe but hated poverty : This , only this ...
... hour , and ransack all the heart , Then soon your ill - placed confidence repay , Commence your lords , and govern , or betray . By numbers here , from shame and censure free , All crimes are safe but hated poverty : This , only this ...
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... There every bush with nature's musick rings , There every breeze bears health upon its wings ; On all thy hours security shall smile , And bless thine evening walk and morning toil . Prepare for death if here at night you roam , LONDON .
... There every bush with nature's musick rings , There every breeze bears health upon its wings ; On all thy hours security shall smile , And bless thine evening walk and morning toil . Prepare for death if here at night you roam , LONDON .
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... hour of silent rest , And leaves unseen , a dagger in your breast . Scarce can our fields , such crowds at Tyburn die , With hemp the gallows and the fleet supply : Propose your schemes , ye senatorian band- Whose ways and means support ...
... hour of silent rest , And leaves unseen , a dagger in your breast . Scarce can our fields , such crowds at Tyburn die , With hemp the gallows and the fleet supply : Propose your schemes , ye senatorian band- Whose ways and means support ...
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... hour , Tries the dread summits of Cęsarean power , With unexpected legions bursts away , And sees defenceless realms receive his sway- Short sway ! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms , The queen , the beauty , sets the world in ...
... hour , Tries the dread summits of Cęsarean power , With unexpected legions bursts away , And sees defenceless realms receive his sway- Short sway ! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms , The queen , the beauty , sets the world in ...
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... hours like these await , Who set unclouded in the gulfs of fate- From Lydia's monarch should the search descend , By Solon cautioned to regard his end , In life's last scene what prodigies surprise , Fears of the brave , and follies of ...
... hours like these await , Who set unclouded in the gulfs of fate- From Lydia's monarch should the search descend , By Solon cautioned to regard his end , In life's last scene what prodigies surprise , Fears of the brave , and follies of ...
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Page 25 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 24 - When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page 87 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Page 64 - On Thames's banks in silent thought we stood, Where Greenwich smiles upon the silver flood; Struck with the seat that gave Eliza birth, We kneel, and kiss the consecrated earth; In pleasing dreams the blissful age renew, And call Britannia's glories back to view: Behold her cross triumphant on the main, The guard of commerce and the dread of Spain, Ere masquerades debauch'd, excise oppress'd, Or English honour grew a standing jest.
Page 74 - observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page 118 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Page 68 - With ev'ry wild absurdity comply, And view each object with another's eye ; To shake with laughter, ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear ; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. * How, when competitors, like these, contend, Can surly virtue hope to fix a friend...
Page 109 - The power of art without the show. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless anguish poured his groan, And lonely want retired to die.
Page 82 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 24 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...