The Task: In Six BooksT. Bedlington, 1826 - 228 pages |
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Page 15
... shine , Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , lost behind a rising ground , the wood 305 Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ...
... shine , Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There , lost behind a rising ground , the wood 305 Seems sunk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ...
Page 27
... shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wand'rer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
... shine ; There only minds like yours can do no harm . Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wand'rer in their shades . At eve The moon - beam , sliding softly in between The sleeping leaves , is all the light they wish ...
Page 37
... shine by situation , hardly less Than by the labour and the skill it cost ; Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and that steal away the thought , With such address from themes of sad import , That , lost in his own musings ...
... shine by situation , hardly less Than by the labour and the skill it cost ; Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and that steal away the thought , With such address from themes of sad import , That , lost in his own musings ...
Page 50
... . If such escape contagion , and emerge Pure from so foul a pool to shine abroad , And give the world their talents and themselves , Bene't Coll . Cambridge . 790 795 Small thanks to those whose negligence or sloth 800 Expos'd 50 THE TASK .
... . If such escape contagion , and emerge Pure from so foul a pool to shine abroad , And give the world their talents and themselves , Bene't Coll . Cambridge . 790 795 Small thanks to those whose negligence or sloth 800 Expos'd 50 THE TASK .
Page 74
... shine , the thirst to be amus'd , That at the sound of Winter's hoary wing Unpeople all our countries of such herds Of flutt'ring , loit'ring , cringing , begging , loose , And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as it ...
... shine , the thirst to be amus'd , That at the sound of Winter's hoary wing Unpeople all our countries of such herds Of flutt'ring , loit'ring , cringing , begging , loose , And wanton vagrants , as make London , vast And boundless as it ...
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Æsop beauty beneath boast breath call'd cause charms dæmons death delight design'd dicebox distant divine domestick dread dream e'en earth ease ev'ning ev'ry fair fame fancy fear feed feel flow'r folly form'd fruit give glory grace grave Guelder Rose hand happy hast heard heart Heav'n honour human John Throckmorton JOSEPH HILL king labour learn'd less liberty liv'd live lost lov'd lyre magick man-The mind mounted best musick Nature Nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace perhaps pleas'd pleasures plebeian pow'r praise proud prove publick rest sacred scene schools seek seem'd shine skies sleep smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd sweet sweet oblivion task taste thee theme thine thou art thought toil trembling truth Twas vex'd virtue voice wand'ring waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wisely store worth youth