The Task: A Poem. In Six BooksB. D. Packard, 41 State-Street. Robert Packard, Printer., 1810 - 193 ページ |
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... boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay .... the lark is gay , That dries his feathers , saturate with dew , Beneath the rosy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring overshoot his humble nest . The peasant too ...
... boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay .... the lark is gay , That dries his feathers , saturate with dew , Beneath the rosy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring overshoot his humble nest . The peasant too ...
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... boast but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners .... victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , plac'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration ...
... boast but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners .... victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , plac'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration ...
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... ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where me might , That we were born her children . Praise enough May yet be foul ; so witty , yet not 48 BOOK 18 : THE TASK .
... ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where me might , That we were born her children . Praise enough May yet be foul ; so witty , yet not 48 BOOK 18 : THE TASK .
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... magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where me might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill th ' ambition of a private man , 48 BOOK 11 . THE TASK .
... magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where me might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill th ' ambition of a private man , 48 BOOK 11 . THE TASK .
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... boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honors of the turf as all our own ! Go , then , well worthy of the praise ye seek , And show the shame ye might conceal at home In foreign eyes ! .... be grooms , and win the plate ...
... boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honors of the turf as all our own ! Go , then , well worthy of the praise ye seek , And show the shame ye might conceal at home In foreign eyes ! .... be grooms , and win the plate ...
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beauty beneath blank verse boast breath cause charg'd charms clime Cowper death Deciduous deep delight distant divine dream earth ease England ev'n ev'ry fair fancy favor'd fear feeds feel field of glory fix'd flow'rs folly form'd fountain of eternal frown fruit gives glory grace grave groves hand happiness hassocks hast heart heav'n honor hosanna human king labor less liberty lost lov'd lyre Mighty winds mind mov'd nature nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace pity pleas'd pleasure POEM poets pow'r praise proud rapture riddance rude rural sacred sake scene seek seem'd shade shine sighs silent sleep sloth smiles SOFA soft song soon soul sound stream stroke sublime sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art toil touch'd trembling truth twas vale virtue wand'ring weary WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom worthy
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52 ページ - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
41 ページ - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more...
46 ページ - Happy the man who sees a God employ'd In all the good and ill that chequer life ! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme. Did not his eye rule all things, and intend The least of our concerns (since from the least The greatest oft originate) ; could chance Find place in his dominion, or dispose One lawless particle to thwart his plan ; Then God might be surprised, and unforeseen Contingence might alarm him, and disturb The...
vi ページ - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by one who had Himself Been hurt by th
77 ページ - Philosophy baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed ; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
103 ページ - No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake.
42 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.
50 ページ - There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
19 ページ - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
99 ページ - And, having dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks,. Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...