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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... Seems funk , and fhorten'd to its topmost boughs .. No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler fome , And of a wannish grey ; the willow fuch . And poplar , that with filver lines his leaf , And ...
... Seems funk , and fhorten'd to its topmost boughs .. No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler fome , And of a wannish grey ; the willow fuch . And poplar , that with filver lines his leaf , And ...
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... seems indeed indignant , and to feel Th ' impreffion of the blast with proud disdain , Frowning as if in his unconscious arm He held the thunder . But the monarch owes . His firm ftability to what he fcorns , More fixt below , the more ...
... seems indeed indignant , and to feel Th ' impreffion of the blast with proud disdain , Frowning as if in his unconscious arm He held the thunder . But the monarch owes . His firm ftability to what he fcorns , More fixt below , the more ...
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... seems To toll the death - bell of its own decease , And by the voice of all its elements To preach the gen'ral doom ... seem to fail , And Nature with a dim and fickly eye To wait the clofe of all ? But grant her end More diftant , and ...
... seems To toll the death - bell of its own decease , And by the voice of all its elements To preach the gen'ral doom ... seem to fail , And Nature with a dim and fickly eye To wait the clofe of all ? But grant her end More diftant , and ...
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... Seems in their eyes , a mercy , for thy fake . t Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven , that it burns down to earth , And in the furious inqueft that it makes On God's behalf , lays wafte his fairest works ...
... Seems in their eyes , a mercy , for thy fake . t Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven , that it burns down to earth , And in the furious inqueft that it makes On God's behalf , lays wafte his fairest works ...
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... seem to fmile at what they need not fear . Th ' amomum there with intermingling flowr's , And cherries , hangs her twigs . Geranium boafts : Her crimson honors , and the fpangl'd beau Ficoides , glitters bright the winter long . All ...
... seem to fmile at what they need not fear . Th ' amomum there with intermingling flowr's , And cherries , hangs her twigs . Geranium boafts : Her crimson honors , and the fpangl'd beau Ficoides , glitters bright the winter long . All ...
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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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Popular passages
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...