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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... death To his young hopes , requires difcreet delay . Experience , flow preceptrefs , teaching oft The way to glory by mifcarriage foul , Muft prompt him , and admonish how to catch Th ' aufpicious moment , when the temper'd heat ...
... death To his young hopes , requires difcreet delay . Experience , flow preceptrefs , teaching oft The way to glory by mifcarriage foul , Muft prompt him , and admonish how to catch Th ' aufpicious moment , when the temper'd heat ...
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... death . Difcharge but thefe kind offices , ( and who Would spare , that loves them , offices like thefe ) " Well they reward the toil . The fight is pleas'd , The fcent regal'd , each odorif ' rous leaf , Each op'ning bloffom freely ...
... death . Difcharge but thefe kind offices , ( and who Would spare , that loves them , offices like thefe ) " Well they reward the toil . The fight is pleas'd , The fcent regal'd , each odorif ' rous leaf , Each op'ning bloffom freely ...
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... deaths , and marriages , epiftles wet With tears that trickl'd down the writers cheeks , Fast as the periods from his fluent quill , Or charg'd with am'rous fighs of abfent fwains , Or nymphs refponfive , equally affect His horfe and ...
... deaths , and marriages , epiftles wet With tears that trickl'd down the writers cheeks , Fast as the periods from his fluent quill , Or charg'd with am'rous fighs of abfent fwains , Or nymphs refponfive , equally affect His horfe and ...
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... death ; the fhrewd Contriver , who firft fweated at the forge , And forc'd the blunt , and yet unblooded steel , To a keen edge , and made it bright for war . Him Tubal nam'd , the Vulcan of old times , The sword and faulchion their ...
... death ; the fhrewd Contriver , who firft fweated at the forge , And forc'd the blunt , and yet unblooded steel , To a keen edge , and made it bright for war . Him Tubal nam'd , the Vulcan of old times , The sword and faulchion their ...
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... death , but not to be his flaves . Mark now the diff'rence , ye that boaft your love Of kings , between your loyalty and ours . We love the man . The paultry pageant you . We , the chief patron of the commonwealth ; You , the regardless ...
... death , but not to be his flaves . Mark now the diff'rence , ye that boaft your love Of kings , between your loyalty and ours . We love the man . The paultry pageant you . We , the chief patron of the commonwealth ; You , the regardless ...
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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 |
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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...