Johnson & Goldsmith & Their PoetryAMS Press, 1971 - 175 pages |
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Page 110
... busy rolls their world away . Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear , For honour forms the social temper here : Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or even imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current : paid from ...
... busy rolls their world away . Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear , For honour forms the social temper here : Honour , that praise which real merit gains , Or even imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current : paid from ...
Page 124
... busy steps the grass - grown footway tread , For all the bloomy flush of life is fled . All but yon widowed , solitary thing , That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She , wretched matron , forced in age , for bread , To strip the ...
... busy steps the grass - grown footway tread , For all the bloomy flush of life is fled . All but yon widowed , solitary thing , That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She , wretched matron , forced in age , for bread , To strip the ...
Page 126
... they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes , for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned . Yet he was kind , or if severe in aught 126 JOHNSON & GOLDSMITH.
... they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes , for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned . Yet he was kind , or if severe in aught 126 JOHNSON & GOLDSMITH.
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