Garth. Rowe. Hughes. Addison. Sheffield (Duke of Buckingham) Prior. Congreve. Fenton

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Samuel Johnson
A. Miller, 1800

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223. oldal - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
224. oldal - Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, Thy bounty shall my pains beguile : The barren wilderness shall smile, With sudden greens and herbage crowned, And streams shall murmur all around...
223. oldal - In foreign realms and lands remote, Supported by Thy care, Through burning climes they pass unhurt, And breathe in tainted air.
359. oldal - Here may ye see, that women be In love, meek, kind, and stable; Let never man reprove them than, Or call them variable; But, rather, pray God that we may To them be comfortable; Which sometime proveth such, as He loveth, If they be charitable.
374. oldal - Nor good, nor bad, nor fools, nor wise ; They would not learn, nor could advise : Without love, hatred, joy, or fear, They led — a kind of — as it were : Nor wish'd, nor car'd, nor laugh'd, nor cried- : And so they liv'd, and so they died.
315. oldal - Deny to have your free-born toe Dragoon'd into a wooden shoe : Are in no plots ; but fairly drive at The public welfare, in your private : And will, for England's glory, try Turks, Jews, and Jesuits to defy, And keep your places till you die.
339. oldal - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
190. oldal - Contempt and fury fire their souls by turns, Each nation's glory in each warrior burns, Each fights, as in his arm th...
300. oldal - tis drudgery to ftoop fo low, To kirn you muft your fecrtt mcAnicg fi»9w. Expofe no fingle fop, but lay the load More equally, and fpread the folly broad ; Mere coxcombs are too obvious ; oft" we fee A fool derided by as bad as he : Hawks fly at nobler game ; in this low way, A very owl may prove a bird of prey. Small poets thus will one poor fop devour, But to collect, like bees, from every...
339. oldal - Let her behold the frantic scene, The women wretched, false the men: And when, these certain ills to shun, She would to thy embraces run; Receive her with extended arms: Seem more delighted with her charms: Wait on her to the park and play: Put on...

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