This item is
Publicly Available
and licensed under:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

 Files for this item

Icon
Name
johnson-0075.txt
Size
27.57 KB
Format
Text file
Description
Version of the work in plain text format
 Download file  Preview
 File Preview  
<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 . . .