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" By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter 'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ... - Page 75
by James Boswell - 1835
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1868 - 280 pages
...ill-placed confidence repay, Commence your lords, and govern or betray. By numbers here from shame and censure free, All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, KM This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse ; The sober trader, at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from...
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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...written in imitation of Juvenal, tells his own story, very sad because so true : "THE FATE OF POVERTY. " By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are safe but bated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues, This, only this, provokes the snarling muse....
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Choice Specimens of English Literature

William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pages
...whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. FROM "LONDON." 215* THE FATE OF POVERTY. By numbers here from shame or censure, free, All crimes...provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tattered cloak Wakes from his dream, and labors for a joke. With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze,...
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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales, Issue 440

John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...the heart ; Then soon your ill-plac'd confidence repay, Commence your lords, and govern or betray. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only...for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gase, I Co And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. ТНК FATE OF POVEHTT. By numbers here from shame or ceniure free, All crimes are safe but hated poverty. This,...sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, ami labors for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...heart : Then soon your ill-placed confidence repay. Commence your lords, and govern or betray. •' hrough many a clime 'tis mine to roam Where many a...of Cadiz. Lord Byron. — Born 1788, Died 1824. 134 tatter 41 cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers...
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Longer English Poems: With Notes Philological and Explanatory, and an ...

John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 pages
...the heart ; Then soon your ill-plac'd confidence repay, Commence your lords, and govern or betray. By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. i^j 63 This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober...
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...Henry's victories ; If the gulled conqueror receives the chain, And flattery prevails when arms are vain? By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes...provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tatterM cloak Wakes from his dream and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze...
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Blackie's comprehensive school series, Issue 6

Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...amid the rejoicings of his friends.—BlacMi* Diamonds and Precious Stones. FATE OF POVERTY IN LONDON. By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes...pursues; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sobered trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 638 pages
...flattery prevails when arms are vain ? By numbers here from shame or censure free, All crimes are sa'e but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law...provokes the snarling Muse. The sober trader at a tattcr'd cloak W'akes from his dream and labours for a joke ; With brisker air the silken courtiers...
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