The Task: In Six BooksT. Bedlington, 1826 - 228 pages |
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Page 16
... light the graceful arch , Yet awful as the consecrated roof Re - echoing pious anthems ! while beneath The checker'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind . So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs , it dances as ...
... light the graceful arch , Yet awful as the consecrated roof Re - echoing pious anthems ! while beneath The checker'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush'd by the wind . So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs , it dances as ...
Page 18
... Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws Italian light on English walls : But imitative strokes can do no more 415 420 425 Than please the eye - sweet Nature's ev'ry sense . 18 THE TASK .
... Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws Italian light on English walls : But imitative strokes can do no more 415 420 425 Than please the eye - sweet Nature's ev'ry sense . 18 THE TASK .
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... light : 430 435 440 His cheek recovers soon its healthful hue ; His eye relumines its extinguish'd fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is wing'd with joy , And riots in the sweets of ev'ry breeze . 445 450 He does not scorn it , who ...
... light : 430 435 440 His cheek recovers soon its healthful hue ; His eye relumines its extinguish'd fires ; He walks , he leaps , he runs - is wing'd with joy , And riots in the sweets of ev'ry breeze . 445 450 He does not scorn it , who ...
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... light they wish , Birds warbling all the musick . We can spare The splendour of your lamps ; they but eclipse Our softer satellite . Your songs confound 750 755 760 765 Our more harmonious notes : the thrush departs Scar'd , THE SOFA . 27.
... light they wish , Birds warbling all the musick . We can spare The splendour of your lamps ; they but eclipse Our softer satellite . Your songs confound 750 755 760 765 Our more harmonious notes : the thrush departs Scar'd , THE SOFA . 27.
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... light skiff , The sport of every wave ? No ; none are clear , And none than we more guilty . But , where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxious , God may choose his mark : May punish , if he please , the ...
... light skiff , The sport of every wave ? No ; none are clear , And none than we more guilty . But , where all Stand chargeable with guilt , and to the shafts Of wrath obnoxious , God may choose his mark : May punish , if he please , the ...
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