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 páginas |
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Página 14
... to what he fcorns , More fixt below , the more difturb'd above . The law by which all creatures else are bouud , Binds man the lord of all . Himself derives No. " No mean advantage from a kindred caufe , From 14 Book I .. THE TASK .
... to what he fcorns , More fixt below , the more difturb'd above . The law by which all creatures else are bouud , Binds man the lord of all . Himself derives No. " No mean advantage from a kindred caufe , From 14 Book I .. THE TASK .
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... caufe , From ftreneous toil his hours of fweeteft eafe . The fedentary stretch their lazy length When custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , fhrunk ...
... caufe , From ftreneous toil his hours of fweeteft eafe . The fedentary stretch their lazy length When custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , fhrunk ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... The mifchiefs of profufion .--- Profufion itself , with all its confequent evils , afcribed as to its principal caufe , to the want of difcipline in the Universities . THE THE T A S K. BOOK II . THE TIME 28- Book I. THE TASK .
... The mifchiefs of profufion .--- Profufion itself , with all its confequent evils , afcribed as to its principal caufe , to the want of difcipline in the Universities . THE THE T A S K. BOOK II . THE TIME 28- Book I. THE TASK .
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... caufe . There ftands the meffenger of truth . There ftande The legate of the fkies . His theme divine , His office facred , his credentials clear . By him , the violated law fpeaks out Its thunders , and by him , in ftrains as sweet As ...
... caufe . There ftands the meffenger of truth . There ftande The legate of the fkies . His theme divine , His office facred , his credentials clear . By him , the violated law fpeaks out Its thunders , and by him , in ftrains as sweet As ...
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The Task: A Poem. in Six Books. to Which Is Added, Tirocinium: Or, a Review ... William Cowper No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2018 |
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2017 |
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 30 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...