The TaskJohn Sharpe, Piccadilly, 1817 - 188 páginas |
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... design'd to mock me , at my side Take step for step ; and , as I near approach The cottage , walk along the plaster'd wall , Prepost'rous sight ! the legs without the man . The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling ...
... design'd to mock me , at my side Take step for step ; and , as I near approach The cottage , walk along the plaster'd wall , Prepost'rous sight ! the legs without the man . The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling ...
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... Design'd by loud declaimers on the part Of liberty , themselves the slaves of lust , Incurs derision for his easy faith And lack of knowledge , and with cause enough : For when was public virtue to be found , Where private was not ? Can ...
... Design'd by loud declaimers on the part Of liberty , themselves the slaves of lust , Incurs derision for his easy faith And lack of knowledge , and with cause enough : For when was public virtue to be found , Where private was not ? Can ...
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... dread of death . " He spoke , and to the precipice at hand Push'd with a madman's fury . Fancy shrinks , And the blood thrills and curdles , at the thought Of such a gulf as he design'd his grave . 168 BOOK VI . THE TASK .
... dread of death . " He spoke , and to the precipice at hand Push'd with a madman's fury . Fancy shrinks , And the blood thrills and curdles , at the thought Of such a gulf as he design'd his grave . 168 BOOK VI . THE TASK .
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William Cowper. Of such a gulf as he design'd his grave . But , though the felon on his back could dare The dreadful leap , more rational , his steed Declin'd the death , and wheeling swiftly round , Or e'er his hoof had press'd the ...
William Cowper. Of such a gulf as he design'd his grave . But , though the felon on his back could dare The dreadful leap , more rational , his steed Declin'd the death , and wheeling swiftly round , Or e'er his hoof had press'd the ...
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... design'd them an abode . 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 ...
... design'd them an abode . 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 ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
beauty beneath betimes boast breath call'd cause charms clime delights design'd distant divine dream Earth ease Ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fear feed feel flow'r folly form'd FOUNDATIONE fountain of eternal frown fruits give glory grace grave groves hand happy heart Heav'n honour human INNER TEMPLE JOHN SHARPE king labour learn'd less live lost lyre mercy Mighty winds mind mischief nature Nature's Nebaioth never o'er once palmistry peace perhaps PICCADILLY plac'd pleas'd pleasures plebeian polish'd pow'r praise proud rapture RICHARD WESTALL riddance rude rural sacred sake scene schools scorn seek seem'd shade shine sight slaves sleep sloth smile SOFA song soon soul sound stroke sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought toil touch'd trembling truth twas virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wise worth youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 32 - 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 143 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Página 154 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half...
Página 159 - The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the' life of all that lives. Nature iS but a name for an effect Whose cause is God.
Página 10 - Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Página 10 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...
Página 45 - I would express him simple, 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 feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Página 157 - And of an humbler growth, the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress, or more sable yew, Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave...
Página 145 - Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. Brutes graze the mountain-top, with faces prone, And eyes intent upon the scanty herb It yields them ; or, recumbent on its brow, Ruminate heedless of the scene outspread Beneath, beyond, and stretching far away From inland regions to the distant main.
Página 65 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.