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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... Please daily , and whose novelty furvives Long knowledge and the fcrutiny of years . Praife juftly due to thofe that I defcribe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural sounds Exhilarate the fpirit , and restore The tone of languid Nature ...
... Please daily , and whose novelty furvives Long knowledge and the fcrutiny of years . Praife juftly due to thofe that I defcribe . Nor rural fights alone , but rural sounds Exhilarate the fpirit , and restore The tone of languid Nature ...
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... please highly for their fake . Peace to the artift , whofe ingenious thought Devifed the weather - houfe , that useful toy ! Fearless of humid air and gathering rains Forth steps the man , an emblem of myself , More delicate his tim ...
... please highly for their fake . Peace to the artift , whofe ingenious thought Devifed the weather - houfe , that useful toy ! Fearless of humid air and gathering rains Forth steps the man , an emblem of myself , More delicate his tim ...
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... please , the lefs , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them , Tremble and be amazed at thine escape Far guiltier England , left he fpare not thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that checquer ...
... please , the lefs , to warn The more malignant . If he fpar'd not them , Tremble and be amazed at thine escape Far guiltier England , left he fpare not thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that checquer ...
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... please us while the fashion is at full , But change with ev'ry moon . The fycophant That waits to dress us , arbitrates their date , Surveys his fair reversion with keen eye ; Finds one ill made , another obfolete , This fits not nicely ...
... please us while the fashion is at full , But change with ev'ry moon . The fycophant That waits to dress us , arbitrates their date , Surveys his fair reversion with keen eye ; Finds one ill made , another obfolete , This fits not nicely ...
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... please , I flight thee not , but make thee welcome still . Juft when our drawing - rooms begin to blaze , With lights , by clear reflection multiply'd , From many a mirrour , in which he of Gath , Goliah , might have feen his giant bulk ...
... please , I flight thee not , but make thee welcome still . Juft when our drawing - rooms begin to blaze , With lights , by clear reflection multiply'd , From many a mirrour , in which he of Gath , Goliah , might have feen his giant bulk ...
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The Task: A Poem. in Six Books. to Which Is Added, Tirocinium: Or, a Review ... William Cowper Pré-visualização indisponível - 2018 |
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper Pré-visualização indisponível - 2017 |
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper Pré-visualização indisponível - 2017 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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...