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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... muft emulate in vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that swim fublime In ftill repeated circles , fcreaming loud , The jay , the pie , and ev'n the boding owl That hails the rifing moon , have charms for me . Sounds inharmonious in ...
... muft emulate in vain , But cawing rooks , and kites that swim fublime In ftill repeated circles , fcreaming loud , The jay , the pie , and ev'n the boding owl That hails the rifing moon , have charms for me . Sounds inharmonious in ...
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... 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 .
... 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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... Muft ftand acknowledg'd , while the world fhall ftand , The most important and effectual guard , Support and ornament of virtue's caufe . There ftands the meffenger of truth . There ftande The legate of the fkies . His theme divine ...
... Muft ftand acknowledg'd , while the world fhall ftand , The most important and effectual guard , Support and ornament of virtue's caufe . There ftands the meffenger of truth . There ftande The legate of the fkies . His theme divine ...
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... muft he find his Maker ? With what rites Adore him ? Will he hear , accept , and blefs ? Or does he fit regardless of his works ? Has man within him an immortal feed ? Or does the tomb take all ? If he furvive His afhes , where ? and in ...
... muft he find his Maker ? With what rites Adore him ? Will he hear , accept , and blefs ? Or does he fit regardless of his works ? Has man within him an immortal feed ? Or does the tomb take all ? If he furvive His afhes , where ? and in ...
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... muft augur better things , Since heav'n would fure grow weary of a world Productive only of a race like us , A monitor is wood . Plank fhaven thin . its ufe We wear it at our backs . There closely brac'd And neatly fitted , it ...
... muft augur better things , Since heav'n would fure grow weary of a world Productive only of a race like us , A monitor is wood . Plank fhaven thin . its ufe We wear it at our backs . There closely brac'd And neatly fitted , it ...
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The Task: A Poem. in Six Books. to Which Is Added, Tirocinium: Or, a Review ... William Cowper No preview available - 2018 |
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...