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 pages |
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... man , an emblem of myself , More delicate his tim'rous mate retires . When Winter foaks the fields , and female feet Too weak to ftruggle with tenacious clay , Or " Or ford the rivulets , are beft at home 8 THE TASK . Book I.
... man , an emblem of myself , More delicate his tim'rous mate retires . When Winter foaks the fields , and female feet Too weak to ftruggle with tenacious clay , Or " Or ford the rivulets , are beft at home 8 THE TASK . Book I.
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... field ; but fcatter'd by degrees Each to his choice , foon whiten all the land . There , from the fun - burnt hay - field homeward creeps The loaded wain , while lighten'd of its charge The wain that meets it paffes fwiftly by , The ...
... field ; but fcatter'd by degrees Each to his choice , foon whiten all the land . There , from the fun - burnt hay - field homeward creeps The loaded wain , while lighten'd of its charge The wain that meets it paffes fwiftly by , The ...
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... scenes fhe draws Is Nature's dictate . Strange ! there should be found Who felf - imprifon'd in their proud faloons , Renounce the odors of the open field For For the unfcented fictions of the looms Who fatisfied with THE SOFA .. 15.
... scenes fhe draws Is Nature's dictate . Strange ! there should be found Who felf - imprifon'd in their proud faloons , Renounce the odors of the open field For For the unfcented fictions of the looms Who fatisfied with THE SOFA .. 15.
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... fields appear below , fuch as he left Far diftant , fuch as he would die to find- He feeks them headlong , and is feen no more . The fpleen is feldom felt where Flora reigns ; The low'ring eye , the petulance , the frown , And fullen ...
... fields appear below , fuch as he left Far diftant , fuch as he would die to find- He feeks them headlong , and is feen no more . The fpleen is feldom felt where Flora reigns ; The low'ring eye , the petulance , the frown , And fullen ...
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... the chiffel occupy alone The pow'rs of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incifion of her guided steel E She She ploughs a brazen field , and clothes a foil THE SOFA . 25.
... the chiffel occupy alone The pow'rs of sculpture , but the style as much ; Each province of her art her equal care . With nice incifion of her guided steel E She She ploughs a brazen field , and clothes a foil THE SOFA . 25.
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The Task: A Poem, in Six Books; To Which Is Added, Tirocinium, Or a Review ... William Cowper No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 30 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 144 - 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.
Page 178 - 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.
Page 30 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 171 - 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.
Page 178 - 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.
Page 179 - 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.
Page 43 - 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.
Page 27 - 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...
Page 29 - 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...