The Task and Other PoemsCarey and Hart, 1842 - 324 pages |
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... Cause Won • . XV . The Silkworm • Page • • € 303 · • 304 306 307 · 309 • . 310 311 • 313 • 314 • . 316 · 316 . 318 • 318 · • 320 321 • • 322 323 323 • 324 XVI . Denner's Old Woman XVII . The Maze • XVIII . No Sorrow peculiar to the ...
... Cause Won • . XV . The Silkworm • Page • • € 303 · • 304 306 307 · 309 • . 310 311 • 313 • 314 • . 316 · 316 . 318 • 318 · • 320 321 • • 322 323 323 • 324 XVI . Denner's Old Woman XVII . The Maze • XVIII . No Sorrow peculiar to the ...
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... cause , From strenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The sedentary stretch their lazy length When Custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need ; the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk ...
... cause , From strenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The sedentary stretch their lazy length When Custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need ; the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk ...
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... 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 , That 24 THE TASK .
... 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 , That 24 THE TASK .
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... enclosed In boundless oceans , never to be pass'd By navigators uninform'd as they , Or plough'd , perhaps , by British bark again : But far beyond the rest , and with most cause , Thee , gentle savage ! * whom no love of 3 * THE SOFA . 29.
... enclosed In boundless oceans , never to be pass'd By navigators uninform'd as they , Or plough'd , perhaps , by British bark again : But far beyond the rest , and with most cause , Thee , gentle savage ! * whom no love of 3 * THE SOFA . 29.
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... causes reproved . Our own late miscarriages accounted for . Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau . But the pulpit , not ... cause , to the want of discipline in the universities . THE TASK . BOOK II . — THE TIMEPIECE . 36.
... causes reproved . Our own late miscarriages accounted for . Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau . But the pulpit , not ... cause , to the want of discipline in the universities . THE TASK . BOOK II . — THE TIMEPIECE . 36.
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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