This item is
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Publicly Available
and licensed under:Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Files for this item
- Name
- johnson-0075.txt
- Size
- 27.57 KB
- Format
- Text file
- Description
- Version of the work in plain text format
<A $JOHNSON><E 1748 A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY SEVERAL HANDS DODSLEY><P 101> <T$L$O$N$D$O$N: $A $P$O$E$M, $IN $IMITATION OF THE $THIRD $SATIRE OF $JUVENAL. $BY $MR. $SAMUEL $JOHNSON. ((= =@UIS INEPTAE $TAM PATIENS URBIS, TAM FERREUS UT TENEAT SE? <L 1> $JUV.)) $THO' GRIEF AND FONDNESS IN MY BREAST REBEL, $WHEN INJUR'D $T$H$A$L$E$S BIDS THE TOWN FAREWELL, $YET STILL MY CALMER THOUGHTS HIS CHOICE COMMEND, $I PRAISE THE HERMIT, BUT REGRET THE FRIEND, $WHO NOW RESOLVES, FROM VICE AND $L$O$N$D$N FAR, $TO BREATHE IN DISTANT FIELDS A PURER AIR, $AND, FIX'D ON $CAMBRIA'S SOLITARY SHORE, $GIVE TO $ST. $DAVID ONE TRUE $BRITON MORE. <P 102> $FOR WHO WOULD LEAVE, UNBRIB'D,$HIBERNIA'S LAND, $OR CHANGE THE ROCKS OF $SCOTLAND FOR THE $STRAND? $THERE NONE ARE SWEPT BY SUDDEN FATE AWAY, $BUT ALL WHOM HUNGER SPARES, WITH AGE DECAY: $HERE MALICE, RAPINE, ACCIDENT, CONSPIRE, $AND NOW A RABBLE RAGES, NOW A FIRE; $THEIR AMBUSH HERE RELENTLESS RUFFIANS LAY, $HERE FALLING HOUSES THUNDER ON YOUR HEAD $AND HERE . . .