Poems, 2. kötetJ. Johnson, 1800 |
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4. oldal
... , twain at once . So fit two kings of Brentford on one throne ; And so two citizens who take the air , Close pack'd , and smiling , in a chaise and one . - But relaxation of the languid frame , By soft THE TASK . BOOK I.
... , twain at once . So fit two kings of Brentford on one throne ; And so two citizens who take the air , Close pack'd , and smiling , in a chaise and one . - But relaxation of the languid frame , By soft THE TASK . BOOK I.
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... smiles , defcends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , ease , when courted moft , Fartheft retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oft'nest sacrifice are favour'd leaft . The love of Nature ...
... smiles , defcends toward the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , ease , when courted moft , Fartheft retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oft'nest sacrifice are favour'd leaft . The love of Nature ...
21. oldal
... smiles , and bloom less tranfient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That palls and fatiates , and makes languid life A pedlar's pack , that bows the bearer down . Health ...
... smiles , and bloom less tranfient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That palls and fatiates , and makes languid life A pedlar's pack , that bows the bearer down . Health ...
23. oldal
... smiles , flides off , Faftidious , seeking less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the shelter'd vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce awhile , Not senseless of its charms , what fill we ...
... smiles , flides off , Faftidious , seeking less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the shelter'd vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us ; happy to renounce awhile , Not senseless of its charms , what fill we ...
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... smile , Can boaft but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , plae'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
... smile , Can boaft but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , plae'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
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327. oldal - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
40. oldal - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
119. oldal - tis the twanging horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...
335. oldal - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
40. oldal - As human Nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.
41. oldal - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
34. oldal - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves?
56. oldal - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own — Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design.
189. oldal - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So...
333. oldal - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...