The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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Page 12
... O'er her gray roofs , with baneful ivy bound , Time , sure destroyer , walks his hostile round : Silent , and slow , and ceaseless in his toil , He mines each wall , he moulders every pile ! Ruin hangs hovering o'er the fated place ...
... O'er her gray roofs , with baneful ivy bound , Time , sure destroyer , walks his hostile round : Silent , and slow , and ceaseless in his toil , He mines each wall , he moulders every pile ! Ruin hangs hovering o'er the fated place ...
Page 14
... o'er ; A flesh - fly , that just flutters on the wing , Awake to buz , but not alive to sting ; Brisk where he cannot , backward where he can ; The teazing ghost of the departed man . ON I. H. , ES2 . THE youth had wit himself , and ...
... o'er ; A flesh - fly , that just flutters on the wing , Awake to buz , but not alive to sting ; Brisk where he cannot , backward where he can ; The teazing ghost of the departed man . ON I. H. , ES2 . THE youth had wit himself , and ...
Page 17
... O'er Earth's extended space : and thence , on high , -Spread to superior worlds thy bolder flight , Excursive , unconfin'd . Hence from the haunts Of vice and folly , vanity and man- To yon expanse of plains , where Truth delights ...
... O'er Earth's extended space : and thence , on high , -Spread to superior worlds thy bolder flight , Excursive , unconfin'd . Hence from the haunts Of vice and folly , vanity and man- To yon expanse of plains , where Truth delights ...
Page 18
... o'er the blue immense , burns out With fierce effulgence . Now th ' embowering maze Of vale sequester'd , or the fir - crown'd side Of airy mountain , whence with lucid lapse Falls many a dew - fed stream , invites the step Of musing ...
... o'er the blue immense , burns out With fierce effulgence . Now th ' embowering maze Of vale sequester'd , or the fir - crown'd side Of airy mountain , whence with lucid lapse Falls many a dew - fed stream , invites the step Of musing ...
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... o'er sightless sculls , and crumbling bones , Ghastful he sits , and eyes with stedfast glare . ( Sad trophies of his power , where ivy twines Its fatal green around ) the falling roof , The time - shook arch , the column grey with moss ...
... o'er sightless sculls , and crumbling bones , Ghastful he sits , and eyes with stedfast glare . ( Sad trophies of his power , where ivy twines Its fatal green around ) the falling roof , The time - shook arch , the column grey with moss ...
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