Poems,J. Johnson, 1803 - 363 Seiten |
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Seite 42
... seem to fail , And Nature with a dim and fickly eye To wait the close of all ? But grant her end More diftant , and that prophecy demands A longer refpite , unaccomplished yet ; Still they are frowning fignals , and bespeak Difpleafure ...
... seem to fail , And Nature with a dim and fickly eye To wait the close of all ? But grant her end More diftant , and that prophecy demands A longer refpite , unaccomplished yet ; Still they are frowning fignals , and bespeak Difpleafure ...
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... seem , not always fhow . Poor , yet induftrious , modeft , quiet , neat , Such claim compaffion in a night like this , And have a friend in every feeling heart . Warmed , while it lasts , by labour , all day long , They brave the season ...
... seem , not always fhow . Poor , yet induftrious , modeft , quiet , neat , Such claim compaffion in a night like this , And have a friend in every feeling heart . Warmed , while it lasts , by labour , all day long , They brave the season ...
Seite 145
... Of thofe that bear them , in whatever caufe , Seem moft at variance with all moral good , And imcompatible with ferious thought . VOL . II . L The clown , the child of nature , without guile BOOK IV . THE WINTER EVENING . 145.
... Of thofe that bear them , in whatever caufe , Seem moft at variance with all moral good , And imcompatible with ferious thought . VOL . II . L The clown , the child of nature , without guile BOOK IV . THE WINTER EVENING . 145.
Seite 162
... seem the sparkling trees And fhrubs of fairy land . The crystal drops , That trickle down the branches , faft congealed , Shoot into pillars of pellucid length , And prop the pile they but adorned before . Here grotto within grotto safe ...
... seem the sparkling trees And fhrubs of fairy land . The crystal drops , That trickle down the branches , faft congealed , Shoot into pillars of pellucid length , And prop the pile they but adorned before . Here grotto within grotto safe ...
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... By one of found intelligence rehearsed , ( If fuch who plead for Provideence may seem In modern eyes ) shall make the doctrine clear . Where England , ftretched towards the fetting fun , Narrow BOOK VI . THE WINTER WALK AT NOON . 219.
... By one of found intelligence rehearsed , ( If fuch who plead for Provideence may seem In modern eyes ) shall make the doctrine clear . Where England , ftretched towards the fetting fun , Narrow BOOK VI . THE WINTER WALK AT NOON . 219.
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Seite 236 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Seite 121 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Seite 41 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Seite 121 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb, And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots, bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen, all tranquillity and smiles.
Seite 159 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Seite 89 - In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Seite 48 - Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use, and ready at his will...
Seite 224 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Seite 330 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Seite 189 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.