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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... perhaps , fo delicate his dress , His daily fare as delicate . Alas ! He picks clean teeth , and bufy as he feems . With an old tavern quill , is hungry yet . The rout is folly's circle which she draws With magic wand . So potent is the ...
... perhaps , fo delicate his dress , His daily fare as delicate . Alas ! He picks clean teeth , and bufy as he feems . With an old tavern quill , is hungry yet . The rout is folly's circle which she draws With magic wand . So potent is the ...
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... perhaps on here and there a waif Defirous to return , and not receiv'd , But was an wholesome rigor in the main , And taught th ' unblemish'd to preserve with care That purity , whofe lofs was lofs of all , Men too were nice in honor in ...
... perhaps on here and there a waif Defirous to return , and not receiv'd , But was an wholesome rigor in the main , And taught th ' unblemish'd to preserve with care That purity , whofe lofs was lofs of all , Men too were nice in honor in ...
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... perhaps his pen , Delightful industry enjoy'd at home , And nature , in her cultivated trim , Drefs'd to his tafte , inviting him abroad- Can he want occupation who has these ? Will he be idle who has much t ' enjoy ? Me therefore ...
... perhaps his pen , Delightful industry enjoy'd at home , And nature , in her cultivated trim , Drefs'd to his tafte , inviting him abroad- Can he want occupation who has these ? Will he be idle who has much t ' enjoy ? Me therefore ...
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... hell , invades the throbbing breaft , To combat may be glorious , and fuccefs Perhaps may crown us , but to fly is safe . Had I the choice of fublunary good , What What could I wish , that I poffefs not here 82 THE TASK . Book III .
... hell , invades the throbbing breaft , To combat may be glorious , and fuccefs Perhaps may crown us , but to fly is safe . Had I the choice of fublunary good , What What could I wish , that I poffefs not here 82 THE TASK . Book III .
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... perhaps the glorious hour is come , When having no stake left , no pledge t ' endear Her int'refts , or that gives her facred caufe , A moment's operation on his love , He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal To ferve his country ...
... perhaps the glorious hour is come , When having no stake left , no pledge t ' endear Her int'refts , or that gives her facred caufe , A moment's operation on his love , He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal To ferve his country ...
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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...