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 pages |
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... dreams of fancy , tranquil and fecure . Vain thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it affords . Its elevated feite forbids the wretch To drink fweet waters of the chrystal well ; He dips his bowl into the ...
... dreams of fancy , tranquil and fecure . Vain thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it affords . Its elevated feite forbids the wretch To drink fweet waters of the chrystal well ; He dips his bowl into the ...
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... dream of transports she was not to know .. She heard the doleful tidings of his death , And never fmil'd again . And now flie roams The dreary waste ; there fpends the livelong day , And there , unlefs when charity forbids , The ...
... dream of transports she was not to know .. She heard the doleful tidings of his death , And never fmil'd again . And now flie roams The dreary waste ; there fpends the livelong day , And there , unlefs when charity forbids , The ...
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... dream is paft . And thou haft found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , And homeftall thatch'd with leaves . But haft thou found Their former charms ? And having feen our state , Our palaces , our ladies , and our pomp Of ...
... dream is paft . And thou haft found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , And homeftall thatch'd with leaves . But haft thou found Their former charms ? And having feen our state , Our palaces , our ladies , and our pomp Of ...
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... dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good , Difinterested , good , is not our trade . We travel far ' tis true , but not for nought ; And must be brib'd to ...
... dream all night of what the day denied . Alas ! expect it not . We found no bait To tempt us in thy country . Doing good , Difinterested , good , is not our trade . We travel far ' tis true , but not for nought ; And must be brib'd to ...
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... below . More favor'd we Drink , when we chufe it , at the fountain head . To them it flow'd much mingl'd and defil'd With hurtful error , prejudice , and dreams Illufive Illufive , of philofophy , fo call'd , * But 46 Book II . THE TA S K.
... below . More favor'd we Drink , when we chufe it , at the fountain head . To them it flow'd much mingl'd and defil'd With hurtful error , prejudice , and dreams Illufive Illufive , of philofophy , fo call'd , * But 46 Book II . THE TA S K.
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The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 30 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...