The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... live virtuously it is impossible , except we live ; therefore the first impediment which naturally we endeavour to remove is penury , and want of things without which we cannot live . " Book I. Sect . 9 . The speech is vehement ; but ...
... live virtuously it is impossible , except we live ; therefore the first impediment which naturally we endeavour to remove is penury , and want of things without which we cannot live . " Book I. Sect . 9 . The speech is vehement ; but ...
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... live ; At once they promise , what at once they give . So sweet the air , so moderate the clime , None sickly lives , or dies before his time . Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst , To show how all things were created first ...
... live ; At once they promise , what at once they give . So sweet the air , so moderate the clime , None sickly lives , or dies before his time . Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst , To show how all things were created first ...
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... live but some few hours : Time , what we forbear , devours ! Had Helen , or th ' Egyptian queen 4 , Been near so thrifty of their graces ; Those beauties must at length have been The spoil of age , which finds out faces In the most ...
... live but some few hours : Time , what we forbear , devours ! Had Helen , or th ' Egyptian queen 4 , Been near so thrifty of their graces ; Those beauties must at length have been The spoil of age , which finds out faces In the most ...
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... live : The place does oft those graces give . Great Julius , on the mountains bred , A flock perhaps , or herd , had led : He , that the world subdued , had been " Tis art , and knowledge , which draw forth But the best wrestler on the ...
... live : The place does oft those graces give . Great Julius , on the mountains bred , A flock perhaps , or herd , had led : He , that the world subdued , had been " Tis art , and knowledge , which draw forth But the best wrestler on the ...
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... live . When Fate or errour had our age misled , And o'er this nation such confusion spread ; The only cure , which could from Heaven come down , Was so much power and piety in one ! One ! whose extraction from an ancient line Gives hope ...
... live . When Fate or errour had our age misled , And o'er this nation such confusion spread ; The only cure , which could from Heaven come down , Was so much power and piety in one ! One ! whose extraction from an ancient line Gives hope ...
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