| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...verfification, which perhaps no other Englifh line can equal : Begin, be bold, and venture to be wife, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expe&ing ftay Till the whole ftream that ftopp'd him fhall be gone, , IVhicb rum, and at it runs, for... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...verfification, which perhaps no other Englifh line can equal : Begin, be bold, and venture to be wife, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expefting flay Till the whole ftream that ftopp'd him fhall be gone, IVhlch runs, and as it runs, for... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...from day to day, Docs on a river's bank expecting ftay, Till the whole dream, which ftop'd him, fhould be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. COWLET, AN ancient poet, unreafonably difcontented at the prefent ftate of things, which his fyftem... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...verfification, which perhaps no other Englifh line can equal: Begin, ^e bold, and venture to be wife : He, who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expefting ftay Till the whole ftream that ftopp'd him fhall be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, far... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...verfification, which perhaps no other Englifh line can equal : Begin, be bold, and venture to be wife. He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting ftay Till the whole ftream that ftopp'd him fhall be gone, Which runs, and as it runs, for ever ft... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...uiidcvltand him, and whom therefore, I fay, I know to b>_- not Begin, be bold, and venture to be wife ; He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting ilay, Till the whole ilream, which llopt him, fliould be gone, That runs, and as it runs, fur ever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...verfification, which perhaps no other Englifh line can equal : Begin, be hold, and venture to be wife : He, who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expe&ing ftay Till the whole ftream that ftopp'd him fhall be gone, Wbltb rum, and, as it runt, Jor... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting ftay, Till the whole dream, which ftopp'd him, mould be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. Cow LET. AN ancient poet, unreafonably difcontented at the prefent ftate of things, which his fyftem... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...day to day, Does on a river's bank expe&ing ftay, Till the whole ftrcain, which ftopp'd him, fliould be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. AN ancient poet, unreafonably difcontented at * the prefent ftate of things, which his fyftem of opinions... | |
| 1801 - 344 pages
...day te day, Does on a river's bank expecting flay, Till the whole ftream, which ftopp'd him fhould be gone,. That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. COwLEY". AN ancient poet, unreafonably difcontented at ^* the prefent ftate of- things, which his fyftem... | |
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