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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... most fincere , And that my raptures are not conjured up To ferve occafions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of them all . How oft upon yon eminence , our pace Has flacken'd to a pause , and we have borne The ruffling wind ...
... most fincere , And that my raptures are not conjured up To ferve occafions of poetic pomp , But genuine , and art partner of them all . How oft upon yon eminence , our pace Has flacken'd to a pause , and we have borne The ruffling wind ...
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... most , Good temper ; fpirits prompt to undertake , And not foon spent , though in an arduous task ; The powers of fancy and ftrong thought are theirs Ev'n age itself feems privileged in them With clear exemption from its own defects . A ...
... most , Good temper ; fpirits prompt to undertake , And not foon spent , though in an arduous task ; The powers of fancy and ftrong thought are theirs Ev'n age itself feems privileged in them With clear exemption from its own defects . A ...
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... most caufe Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , * Or elfe vain - glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of ...
... most caufe Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , * Or elfe vain - glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of ...
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... most noisome fewer , The dregs and fæculence of ev'ry land . In cities foul example on most minds Begets its likeness . Rank abundance breeds In grofs and pamper'd cities floth and luft , And wantonnefs and gluttonous excess . In cities ...
... most noisome fewer , The dregs and fæculence of ev'ry land . In cities foul example on most minds Begets its likeness . Rank abundance breeds In grofs and pamper'd cities floth and luft , And wantonnefs and gluttonous excess . In cities ...
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... most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who borne about In chariots and fedans , know no fatigue But that of idleness , and tafte no scenes But fuch as art contrives , poffefs ye ftill ...
... most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who borne about In chariots and fedans , know no fatigue But that of idleness , and tafte no scenes But fuch as art contrives , poffefs ye ftill ...
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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...