Poems, Volume 2R. Johnson, 1803 |
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... the world shall stand , The most important and effectual guard , Support , and ornament , of virtue's cause . There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! .... His theme divine BOOK II . 45 THE TIME PIECE .
... the world shall stand , The most important and effectual guard , Support , and ornament , of virtue's cause . There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! .... His theme divine BOOK II . 45 THE TIME PIECE .
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... divinely free , To soar , and to anticipate the skies ! Yet few remember them . They liv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame , VOL . II . P And chas'd them up to heav'n . .... No marble BOOK V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK . 159.
... divinely free , To soar , and to anticipate the skies ! Yet few remember them . They liv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame , VOL . II . P And chas'd them up to heav'n . .... No marble BOOK V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK . 159.
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... the sleekest mole .; His bosom of the hue With which Aurora decks the skies , When piping winds shall soon arise To sweep up all the dew . Above , below , in all the house , Dire On the Death of Mrs Throckmorton's Bulfinch.
... the sleekest mole .; His bosom of the hue With which Aurora decks the skies , When piping winds shall soon arise To sweep up all the dew . Above , below , in all the house , Dire On the Death of Mrs Throckmorton's Bulfinch.
Contents
THE TASK in Six Books | 1 |
The Winter Walk at Noon | 169 |
An Epistle to Joseph Hill | 207 |
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