The Task: A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: Or, A Review of SchoolsThomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-Street, second door above Chesnut-Street, 1787 - 186 страници |
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... smiling in a chaise and one . But relaxation of the languid frame By foft recumbency of outftretched limbs , Was biifs referved for happier days . So flow . The growth of what is excellent , fo hard T attain perfection in this nether ...
... smiling in a chaise and one . But relaxation of the languid frame By foft recumbency of outftretched limbs , Was biifs referved for happier days . So flow . The growth of what is excellent , fo hard T attain perfection in this nether ...
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... smile Though at their own destruction . She that alks Her dear five hundred friends , contemns them all And hates their coming . They , what can they lefs ? Make juft reprisals , and with cringe and shrug , And bow obfequious , hide ...
... smile Though at their own destruction . She that alks Her dear five hundred friends , contemns them all And hates their coming . They , what can they lefs ? Make juft reprisals , and with cringe and shrug , And bow obfequious , hide ...
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... as he bids . Th ' enraptur'd owner smiles . ' Tis finish'd . And yet finish'd as it seems , Still wants a grace , th ' lovelieft it could fhow , A mine A mine to fatisfy the enormous coft . Drain'd to THE GARDEN . 85.
... as he bids . Th ' enraptur'd owner smiles . ' Tis finish'd . And yet finish'd as it seems , Still wants a grace , th ' lovelieft it could fhow , A mine A mine to fatisfy the enormous coft . Drain'd to THE GARDEN . 85.
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... smiles . This folio of our pages , happy work ! Which , not ev'n critics criticife , that holds Inquifitive attention , while I read Faft bound in chains of filence , which the fair , Though eloquent , themselves , yet fear to break ...
... smiles . This folio of our pages , happy work ! Which , not ev'n critics criticife , that holds Inquifitive attention , while I read Faft bound in chains of filence , which the fair , Though eloquent , themselves , yet fear to break ...
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... smile ? The felf - complacent actor , when he views , ( Stealing a fidelong glance at a full house ) The flope of faces , from the floor to th ' roof , ( As if one mafter - fpring controul'd them all ) Relax'd into an univerfal grin ...
... smile ? The felf - complacent actor , when he views , ( Stealing a fidelong glance at a full house ) The flope of faces , from the floor to th ' roof , ( As if one mafter - fpring controul'd them all ) Relax'd into an univerfal grin ...
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Страница 144 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Страница 178 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us ! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Страница 30 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Страница 171 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Страница 178 - To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. All creatures worship man, and all mankind One Lord, one Father.
Страница 179 - All kingdoms and all princes of the earth Flock to that light ; the glory of all lands Flows into her ; unbounded is her joy, . And endless her increase. Thy rams are there, *Nebaioth, and the flocks of Kedar there ; The looms of Ormus, and the mines of Ind, And Saba's spicy groves, pay tribute there.
Страница 43 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own — Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design.
Страница 27 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Страница 29 - Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own...