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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... Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , * Or elfe vain - glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence ...
... Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , * Or elfe vain - glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence ...
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... thee rude And ignorant , except of outward show ) I cannot think thee yet fo dull of heart And fpiritlefs , as never to regret Sweets tasted here , and left as foon as known . Methinks I see thee ftraying on the beach , And asking of ...
... thee rude And ignorant , except of outward show ) I cannot think thee yet fo dull of heart And fpiritlefs , as never to regret Sweets tasted here , and left as foon as known . Methinks I see thee ftraying on the beach , And asking of ...
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... thee , would not hold thee faft Freedom ! whom they that lose thee , so regret , That ev'n a judgment making way for thee , Seems in their eyes , a mercy , for thy fake . t Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven ...
... thee , would not hold thee faft Freedom ! whom they that lose thee , so regret , That ev'n a judgment making way for thee , Seems in their eyes , a mercy , for thy fake . t Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven ...
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... thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that checquer life ! Refolving all events , with their effects And manifold results , into the will And arbitration wife of the Supreme . Did not his eye rule all ...
... thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that checquer life ! Refolving all events , with their effects And manifold results , into the will And arbitration wife of the Supreme . Did not his eye rule all ...
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... thee ftill , My country ! and while yet a nook is left , Where English minds and manners may be found , Shall be conftrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year , moft part , deform'd With dripping rains , or wither ...
... thee ftill , My country ! and while yet a nook is left , Where English minds and manners may be found , Shall be conftrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year , moft part , deform'd With dripping rains , or wither ...
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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...