Poems, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1782 - 367 páginas |
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... teach , Mean you to prophecy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If ...
... teach , Mean you to prophecy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If ...
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... Eden e'er yet innocence of heart Had faded , poetry was not an art ; Language above all teaching , or if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant Elegant as fimplicity , and warm As exftafy , unmanacl'd ( 30 )
... Eden e'er yet innocence of heart Had faded , poetry was not an art ; Language above all teaching , or if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant Elegant as fimplicity , and warm As exftafy , unmanacl'd ( 30 )
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... teach . Not all whofe eloquence the fancy fills , Mufical as the chime of tinkling rills , Weak to perform , though mighty to pretend , Can trace her mazy windings to their end , Difcern the fraud beneath the fpecious lure , Prevent the ...
... teach . Not all whofe eloquence the fancy fills , Mufical as the chime of tinkling rills , Weak to perform , though mighty to pretend , Can trace her mazy windings to their end , Difcern the fraud beneath the fpecious lure , Prevent the ...
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... teach her unexperienc'd yet and green , To scribble as you fcribble at fifteen ; Who kindling a combuftion of defire , With fome cold moral think to quench the fire , Though all your engineering proves in vain , The dribbling ftream ne ...
... teach her unexperienc'd yet and green , To scribble as you fcribble at fifteen ; Who kindling a combuftion of defire , With fome cold moral think to quench the fire , Though all your engineering proves in vain , The dribbling ftream ne ...
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... Teach him to fence and figure twice a week , And having done we think , the best we can , Praise his proficiency and dub him man . From school to Cam or Ifis , and thence home , And thence with all convenient speed to Rome , With rev ...
... Teach him to fence and figure twice a week , And having done we think , the best we can , Praise his proficiency and dub him man . From school to Cam or Ifis , and thence home , And thence with all convenient speed to Rome , With rev ...
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