The Poetical Works ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 355 pages |
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... Lord Lyttelton . His debts , though still of no great amount , began to torment him anew ; and next year a crisis took place . - Johnson , obeying an urgent summons to his lodgings , found him arrested by his landlady ; and a ...
... Lord Lyttelton . His debts , though still of no great amount , began to torment him anew ; and next year a crisis took place . - Johnson , obeying an urgent summons to his lodgings , found him arrested by his landlady ; and a ...
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... Lord North's government , he refused to write in its defence for liberal payment . The next year began with the perform- ance of his comedy , " The Good - natured Man , " at Colman's theatre , Covent Garden . Its success was no more ...
... Lord North's government , he refused to write in its defence for liberal payment . The next year began with the perform- ance of his comedy , " The Good - natured Man , " at Colman's theatre , Covent Garden . Its success was no more ...
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... lords without a slave : And late the nation found , with fruitless skill , Its former strength was but plethoric ill . Yet , still the loss of wealth is here supplied By arts , the splendid wrecks of former pride : From these the feeble ...
... lords without a slave : And late the nation found , with fruitless skill , Its former strength was but plethoric ill . Yet , still the loss of wealth is here supplied By arts , the splendid wrecks of former pride : From these the feeble ...
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... lord the sumptuous banquet deal , To make him loathe his vegetable meal ; But calm , and bred in ignorance and toil , Each wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful , at morn , he wakes from short repose , Breathes the keen air ...
... lord the sumptuous banquet deal , To make him loathe his vegetable meal ; But calm , and bred in ignorance and toil , Each wish contracting , fits him to the soil . Cheerful , at morn , he wakes from short repose , Breathes the keen air ...
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... lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs , a thoughtful band , By forms unfashioned , fresh from nature's hand , Fierce in their native hardiness of soul . True to imagined right , above control , While even the peasant ...
... lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs , a thoughtful band , By forms unfashioned , fresh from nature's hand , Fierce in their native hardiness of soul . True to imagined right , above control , While even the peasant ...
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Ballads beauty blessings blest bliss bound in cloth breast BULKLEY Burke CHALDEAN CHARLES BENNETT CHARLES GRIFFIN charms cheer CHORUS cloth and gold cloth gilt elegant comedy Covent Garden cried David Garrick dear Edited EDMUND BURKE EPILOGUE essays eyes fame Fcap fear flies folly handsomely bound heart Heaven honour Illustrated Johnson Kilkenny labour land Lord luxury Memoir and Notes mind mirth MISS CATLEY never o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain Pasty plain pleasure poem Poetical Poets poor praise pride rage raptures Recitative Reynolds rise ROBERT BELL round Royal 8vo scene SECOND PRIEST SECOND PROPHET sigh sinks sizar skies smiling SONG sorrow soul spread spurn Stoops to Conquer supplies swain sweet SWEET Auburn thee thine thou thoughts toil Toned Paper triumph turn Twas Ven'son village wealth weep Whitefoord WILLIAM SPALDING WOMAN wretch yonder youth