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 ページ |
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... honors bright . O'er thefe , but far beyond ( a spacious map Of hill and valley interpos'd between ) The Oufe , dividing the well - water'd land , Now glitters in the fun , and now retires , As bashful , yet impatient to be seen . Hence ...
... honors bright . O'er thefe , but far beyond ( a spacious map Of hill and valley interpos'd between ) The Oufe , dividing the well - water'd land , Now glitters in the fun , and now retires , As bashful , yet impatient to be seen . Hence ...
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... honor has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay - the lark is gay That dries his feathers faturate with dew Beneath the rofy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring overshoot his humble neft . The ...
... honor has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay - the lark is gay That dries his feathers faturate with dew Beneath the rofy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring overshoot his humble neft . The ...
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... honor too To peculators of the public gold . That thieves at home muft hang ; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purfe The wealth of Indian provinces , escapes . Nor Nor is it well , nor can it come to 26 Book I. THE TASK .
... honor too To peculators of the public gold . That thieves at home muft hang ; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purfe The wealth of Indian provinces , escapes . Nor Nor is it well , nor can it come to 26 Book I. THE TASK .
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... honors , and farewell with them The hope of fuch hereafter . They have fall'n Each in his field of glory : One in arms , And one in council . Wolfe upon the lap Of fmiling victory that moment won ,. And And Chatham , heart - fick of his ...
... honors , and farewell with them The hope of fuch hereafter . They have fall'n Each in his field of glory : One in arms , And one in council . Wolfe upon the lap Of fmiling victory that moment won ,. And And Chatham , heart - fick of his ...
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... honors of the turf as all our own . Go then , well worthy of the praise ye feek , And show the shame ye might conceal at home , In foreign eyes ! -be grooms , and win the plate , Where once your nobler fathers won a crown ! ' Tis gen ...
... honors of the turf as all our own . Go then , well worthy of the praise ye feek , And show the shame ye might conceal at home , In foreign eyes ! -be grooms , and win the plate , Where once your nobler fathers won a crown ! ' Tis gen ...
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againſt beneath boaſt caufe cauſe charms cloſe courſe defign diftant dream earth eaſe elfe ev'n ev'ry facred fafe faft fair fake fame faſhion fatire fcenes fcorn fecure feeds feek feel feems feen fhade fhall fhines fhould fhow fide fighs filent filks fince firft firſt fkies flaves fleep flow'r fmiles folly fome fong foon form'd foul fpirit fpread ftands ftate ftill ftream ftrength fuch fweet grace heart heav'n himſelf itſelf juft laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs loft meaſure mind moft moſt mufic muft muſt nature nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praife praiſe purpoſe reft rife ſcene ſchool ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhine ſhow ſkill ſmile ſport ſpot ſtill ſweet tafte taſk thee thefe themſelves Theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thouſand truth uſe virtue wafte whofe whoſe wind wiſdom worth
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30 ページ - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
144 ページ - 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.
178 ページ - 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.
30 ページ - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
171 ページ - 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.
178 ページ - 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.
179 ページ - 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.
43 ページ - 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.
27 ページ - 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...
29 ページ - 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...