The Task: In Six BooksT. Bedlington, 1826 - 228 pages |
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Page 17
... give ample space To narrow bounds . The grove receives us next ; Between the upright shafts of whose tall elms We may discern the thresher at his task . Thump after thump resounds the constant flail , That seems to swing uncertain , and ...
... give ample space To narrow bounds . The grove receives us next ; Between the upright shafts of whose tall elms We may discern the thresher at his task . Thump after thump resounds the constant flail , That seems to swing uncertain , and ...
Page 19
... gives the fair 460 Sweet smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedler's pack , that bows the ...
... gives the fair 460 Sweet smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedler's pack , that bows the ...
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... Gives more than female beauty to a stone , And Chatham's eloquence to marble lips . Nor does the chisel occupy alone 705 The pow'rs of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incision of ...
... Gives more than female beauty to a stone , And Chatham's eloquence to marble lips . Nor does the chisel occupy alone 705 The pow'rs of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incision of ...
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... gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery bile upon the skin , 180 And putrefy the breath of blooming Health . He calls for Famine , and the meagre fiend 185 Blows mildew from between his shrivell'd lips , And taints the ...
... gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery bile upon the skin , 180 And putrefy the breath of blooming Health . He calls for Famine , and the meagre fiend 185 Blows mildew from between his shrivell'd lips , And taints the ...
Page 36
... no malice , but at once Forgets in peace the injuries of war , And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace . 265 270 And sham'd as we have been , to th ' very beard 275 Brav'd and defied , and in our own sea 36 THE TASK .
... no malice , but at once Forgets in peace the injuries of war , And gives his direst foe a friend's embrace . 265 270 And sham'd as we have been , to th ' very beard 275 Brav'd and defied , and in our own sea 36 THE TASK .
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