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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... thousand warblers chear the day , and one The live - long night : nor thefe alone whofe notes Nice - finger'd art muft emulate in vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that swim fublime In ftill repeated circles , fcreaming loud , The jay ...
... thousand warblers chear the day , and one The live - long night : nor thefe alone whofe notes Nice - finger'd art muft emulate in vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that swim fublime In ftill repeated circles , fcreaming loud , The jay ...
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... thousands ftill defire to journey on , Though halt and weary of the path they tread . The paralytic who can hold her cards But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand To deal and fhuffle , to divide and fort D Her Her mingled fuits ...
... thousands ftill defire to journey on , Though halt and weary of the path they tread . The paralytic who can hold her cards But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand To deal and fhuffle , to divide and fort D Her Her mingled fuits ...
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... thousand deeps And fiery caverns roars beneath his foot . The hills move lightly and the mountains smoke , For he has touch'd them . From th ' extremeft point Of elevation down into th ' abyfs , His wrath is bufy and his frown is felt ...
... thousand deeps And fiery caverns roars beneath his foot . The hills move lightly and the mountains smoke , For he has touch'd them . From th ' extremeft point Of elevation down into th ' abyfs , His wrath is bufy and his frown is felt ...
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... thousand arts.- Are there who purchase of the Doctor's ware ? Oh name it not in Gath ! -it cannot be , That grave and learned Clerks fhould need fuch aid . He doubtless is in fport , and does but droll , Affuming thus a rank unknown ...
... thousand arts.- Are there who purchase of the Doctor's ware ? Oh name it not in Gath ! -it cannot be , That grave and learned Clerks fhould need fuch aid . He doubtless is in fport , and does but droll , Affuming thus a rank unknown ...
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... thousand fyftems , each in his own way , They should go out in fume , and be forgot ? Ah ! what is life thus fpent ? and what are they , But frantic who thus fpend it ? all for smoke- Eternity for bubbles , proves at last A senseless ...
... thousand fyftems , each in his own way , They should go out in fume , and be forgot ? Ah ! what is life thus fpent ? and what are they , But frantic who thus fpend it ? all for smoke- Eternity for bubbles , proves at last A senseless ...
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The Task: A Poem. in Six Books. to Which Is Added, Tirocinium: Or, a Review ... William Cowper Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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...