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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... fear'd In Albion's happy isle . The umber stood Pond'rous , and fixt by its own maffy weight . But elbows ftill were . wanting ; thefe , some say , An Alderman of Cripplegate contrived , And fome afcribe the invention to a priest ...
... fear'd In Albion's happy isle . The umber stood Pond'rous , and fixt by its own maffy weight . But elbows ftill were . wanting ; thefe , some say , An Alderman of Cripplegate contrived , And fome afcribe the invention to a priest ...
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... fear to die , Yet fcorn the purposes for which they live . Then , wherefore not renounce them ? No - the dread , The flavish dread of folitude , that breeds Reflection and remorfe , the fear of fhame , And their invet'rate habits , all ...
... fear to die , Yet fcorn the purposes for which they live . Then , wherefore not renounce them ? No - the dread , The flavish dread of folitude , that breeds Reflection and remorfe , the fear of fhame , And their invet'rate habits , all ...
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... fears . But comes at laft the dull and dusky eve , And fends thee to thy cabbin , well - prepar'd To dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good ...
... fears . But comes at laft the dull and dusky eve , And fends thee to thy cabbin , well - prepar'd To dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good ...
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... fear . Thou fool ! will thy discov'ry of the cause Sufpend th ' effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than a ...
... fear . Thou fool ! will thy discov'ry of the cause Sufpend th ' effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world , And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation lefs Than a ...
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... fear no discipline of human hands . The pulpit therefore ( and I name it , fill'd With folemn awe , that bids me well beware With what intent I touch that holy thing ) The pulpit ( when the fat'rift has at last , : Strutting and vap ...
... fear no discipline of human hands . The pulpit therefore ( and I name it , fill'd With folemn awe , that bids me well beware With what intent I touch that holy thing ) The pulpit ( when the fat'rift has at last , : Strutting and vap ...
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Страница 30 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
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...