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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... wonder then , that health and virtue , gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all , fhould most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who borne about In ...
... wonder then , that health and virtue , gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all , fhould most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Poffefs ye therefore , ye who borne about In ...
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... wonder if discharg'd into the world , They fhame their fhooters with a random flight , Their points obtuse , and feathers drunk with wine , Well may the church wage unsuccessful war With fuch artill'ry arm'd . Vice parries wide Th ...
... wonder if discharg'd into the world , They fhame their fhooters with a random flight , Their points obtuse , and feathers drunk with wine , Well may the church wage unsuccessful war With fuch artill'ry arm'd . Vice parries wide Th ...
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... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unfufpicious nights , And flumbers , unalarm'd , Now , ere you sleep , See that your polish'd arms be prim'd with care , And drop the night - bolt ...
... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unfufpicious nights , And flumbers , unalarm'd , Now , ere you sleep , See that your polish'd arms be prim'd with care , And drop the night - bolt ...
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... , his beauties had then firft Engag'd my wonder , and admiring ftill , And still admiring , with regret fuppos'd The joy half loft , because not fooner found . Thee Thee too , enamour'd of the life I lov'd , THE WINTER EVENING . 113.
... , his beauties had then firft Engag'd my wonder , and admiring ftill , And still admiring , with regret fuppos'd The joy half loft , because not fooner found . Thee Thee too , enamour'd of the life I lov'd , THE WINTER EVENING . 113.
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... wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which fancy feeks in vain , The likeness of some object feen before . Thus nature works as if to mock at art , And in defiance of her rival pow'rs ; By these fortuitous and random strokes ...
... wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which fancy feeks in vain , The likeness of some object feen before . Thus nature works as if to mock at art , And in defiance of her rival pow'rs ; By these fortuitous and random strokes ...
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Términos y frases comunes
againſt beneath boaſt caufe cauſe charms cloſe courſe defign diftant dream earth eaſe elfe ev'n ev'ry facred fafe faft fair fake fame faſhion fatire fcenes fcorn fecure feeds feek feel feems feen fhade fhall fhines fhould fhow fide fighs filent filks fince firft firſt fkies flaves fleep flow'r fmiles folly fome fong foon form'd foul fpirit fpread ftands ftate ftill ftream ftrength fuch fweet grace heart heav'n himſelf itſelf juft laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs loft meaſure mind moft moſt mufic muft muſt nature nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe purpoſe reft rife ſcene ſchool ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhow ſkill ſmile ſport ſpot ſtill ſweet tafte taſk thee thefe themſelves Theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thouſand truth uſe virtue wafte whofe whoſe wind wiſdom worth
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...