Poems, Volumen 21805 |
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... wisdom , proves a school , in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean felf - attachment , and scarce aught befide . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world , Where it ...
... wisdom , proves a school , in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean felf - attachment , and scarce aught befide . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world , Where it ...
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... wisdom's fake ; Nor can example hurt them : what they see Of vice in others but enhancing more The charms of virtue in their juft esteem . If such escape contagion , and emerge Pure from fo foul a pool to shine abroad , And give the ...
... wisdom's fake ; Nor can example hurt them : what they see Of vice in others but enhancing more The charms of virtue in their juft esteem . If such escape contagion , and emerge Pure from fo foul a pool to shine abroad , And give the ...
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... great the danger of disturbing her , To mufe in filence , or at least confine Remarks , that gall fo many , to the few My partners in retreat . Difguft concealed Is oft - times proof of wisdom , when the 72 BOOK 11 THE TASK .
... great the danger of disturbing her , To mufe in filence , or at least confine Remarks , that gall fo many , to the few My partners in retreat . Difguft concealed Is oft - times proof of wisdom , when the 72 BOOK 11 THE TASK .
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William Cowper. Is oft - times proof of wisdom , when the fault Is obftinate , and cure beyond our reach . Domeftic happiness , thou only blifs Of Paradise , that haft survived the fall ! Though few now taste thee unimpaired and pure ...
William Cowper. Is oft - times proof of wisdom , when the fault Is obftinate , and cure beyond our reach . Domeftic happiness , thou only blifs Of Paradise , that haft survived the fall ! Though few now taste thee unimpaired and pure ...
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... wisdom well , And prove it in the infallible refult So hollow and fo falfe - I feel my heart Diffolve in pity , and account the learned , If this be learning , moft of all deceived . Great crimes alarm the confcience , but it fleeps ...
... wisdom well , And prove it in the infallible refult So hollow and fo falfe - I feel my heart Diffolve in pity , and account the learned , If this be learning , moft of all deceived . Great crimes alarm the confcience , but it fleeps ...
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Página 36 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 35 - My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Página 214 - 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 206 - 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 37 - 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 217 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! it was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood. Thy saints proclaim thee king ; and in their hearts Thy title is engraven with a pen Dipp'd in the fountain of eternal love.
Página 118 - Me oft has fancy, ludicrous and wild, Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages expressed In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
Página 185 - The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Página 329 - And swing his rump around. His frisking was at evening hours, For then he lost his fear, But most before approaching showers Or when a storm drew near. Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, And every night at play. I kept him for his humour's sake, For he would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile.
Página 13 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...