The Task and Other PoemsCarey and Hart, 1842 - 324 pages |
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... beauty , her fertility . She dreads An instant's pause , and lives but while she moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for use , Else noxious ; oceans ...
... beauty , her fertility . She dreads An instant's pause , and lives but while she moves . Its own revolvency upholds the world . Winds from all quarters agitate the air , And fit the limpid element for use , Else noxious ; oceans ...
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... Beauty , when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet smiles , and bloom less transient than her own It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys ...
... Beauty , when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet smiles , and bloom less transient than her own It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys ...
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... beauty to a stone , And Chatham's eloquence to marble lips . Nor does the chisel occupy alone The powers of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incision of her guided steel She ploughs ...
... beauty to a stone , And Chatham's eloquence to marble lips . Nor does the chisel occupy alone The powers of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incision of her guided steel She ploughs ...
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William Cowper. And roofs embattled high , the gloomy scenes , Where beauty oft and letter'd worth consume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone : the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release ...
William Cowper. And roofs embattled high , the gloomy scenes , Where beauty oft and letter'd worth consume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone : the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release ...
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... beauty , starves his flock . Therefore , avaunt all attitude , and stare , And start theatric , practised at the glass ! I seek divine simplicity in him Who handles things divine ; and all besides , Though learn'd with labour , and ...
... beauty , starves his flock . Therefore , avaunt all attitude , and stare , And start theatric , practised at the glass ! I seek divine simplicity in him Who handles things divine ; and all besides , Though learn'd with labour , and ...
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Æsop Aspasio beauty beneath betimes boast BODHAM breath call'd cause charms death deem delight design'd distant divine dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fear feed feel flowers folly form'd fruit give glory grace grave hand happy heart Heaven honest pleasures honour hope human John Gilpin JOSEPH HILL King labour learn'd less liberty light live lost lyre mind mounted best Muse Nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once peace perhaps pleasure plebeian praise prize proud prove rest scene scorn seek seem'd sensual world shine sight skies sleep sloth smile song soon soul sound spare stamp'd sweet sweet oblivion task taste thee theme thine thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas vex'd virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wisely store wonder worth youth