The Task And Other Poems1891 |
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... grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . The love of Nature and the scene she draws Is ...
... grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . The love of Nature and the scene she draws Is ...
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... grave ; nor so content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dusty gulfs . What then - were they the wicked above all , And we the righteous , whose fast - anchored isle Moved not , while theirs was ...
... grave ; nor so content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in her dry and dusty gulfs . What then - were they the wicked above all , And we the righteous , whose fast - anchored isle Moved not , while theirs was ...
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... loudest in their praise who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks of fashion , regulate the dress , Retrench a sword - blade , or displace a patch 4.4 THE TASK .
... loudest in their praise who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks of fashion , regulate the dress , Retrench a sword - blade , or displace a patch 4.4 THE TASK .
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... grave and learned Clerks should need such aid . He doubtless is in sport , and does but droll , Assuming thus a rank unknown before , Grand caterer and dry - nurse of the Church . I venerate the man whose heart is warm , Whose hands are ...
... grave and learned Clerks should need such aid . He doubtless is in sport , and does but droll , Assuming thus a rank unknown before , Grand caterer and dry - nurse of the Church . I venerate the man whose heart is warm , Whose hands are ...
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... grave , sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain , And plain in manner ; decent , solemn , chaste , And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself , as conscious of his awful charge , And anxious mainly that the flock he ...
... grave , sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain , And plain in manner ; decent , solemn , chaste , And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself , as conscious of his awful charge , And anxious mainly that the flock he ...
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