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... , brings his beverage home , Far fetch'd and little worth ; nor seldom waits Dependant on the baker's punctual call , To hear his creaking panniers at the door , Angry and sad , and his last crust consumed . 14 B. I. THE TASK .
... , brings his beverage home , Far fetch'd and little worth ; nor seldom waits Dependant on the baker's punctual call , To hear his creaking panniers at the door , Angry and sad , and his last crust consumed . 14 B. I. THE TASK .
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... hear , approve , and own , Paul should himself direct me . I would trace His master - strokes , and draw from his design . I would express him simple , grave , sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain , And plain in manner ...
... hear , approve , and own , Paul should himself direct me . I would trace His master - strokes , and draw from his design . I would express him simple , grave , sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain , And plain in manner ...
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... hear , accept , and bless ? Or does he sit regardless of his works ? Has man within him an immortal seed ? Or does the tomb take all ? If he survive His ashes , where ? and in what weal or woe ? Knots worthy of solution , which alone A ...
... hear , accept , and bless ? Or does he sit regardless of his works ? Has man within him an immortal seed ? Or does the tomb take all ? If he survive His ashes , where ? and in what weal or woe ? Knots worthy of solution , which alone A ...
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... hear , Or turn to nourishment , digested well . Or if the garden with its many cares , All well repaid , demand him , he attends The welcome call , conscious how much the hand Of lubbard Labour needs his watchful eye , Oft loitering ...
... hear , Or turn to nourishment , digested well . Or if the garden with its many cares , All well repaid , demand him , he attends The welcome call , conscious how much the hand Of lubbard Labour needs his watchful eye , Oft loitering ...
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... hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance , where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the ' uninjured ear . Thus sitting , and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns , I seem advanced To some secure ...
... hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance , where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the ' uninjured ear . Thus sitting , and surveying thus at ease The globe and its concerns , I seem advanced To some secure ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath betimes bird boast breath call'd cause charms Chiswick death delight design'd distant divine dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fast fear feed feel flowers folly form'd fountain of eternal give glory GLOWWORM grace grave hand happy hast heard heart Heaven honour labour learn'd less life's live lost lyre Mighty winds mind Muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once pass'd peace perhaps pity pleasure poets praise prize proud prove rapture rest rude scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shrubs sighs sight skies slaves sleep sloth smile soft song soon soul sound spaniel spare stamp'd sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought THRACIAN toil truth Twas virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worm worth youth
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Page 83 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...
Page 197 - Sighs must fan it, tears must water, Sweat of ours must dress the soil. Think, ye masters iron-hearted, Lolling at your jovial boards, Think how many backs have smarted For the sweets your cane affords.
Page 56 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
Page 208 - WHAT is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? The stream of pure and genuine love Derives its current from above ; And earth a second Eden shows, Where'er the healing water flows...
Page 127 - Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste . His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before ; Thine eye shall be instructed, and thine heart, Made pure, shall relish with divine delight 'Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
Page 229 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...
Page 150 - 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 81 - Nor his, who patient stands till his feet throb And his head thumps, to feed upon the breath Of patriots bursting with heroic rage, Or placemen all tranquillity and smiles.
Page 127 - So manifold in cares, whose every day Brings its own evil with it, makes it less : For he has wings that neither sickness, pain, Nor penury can cripple or confine. No nook so narrow but he spreads them there With ease, and is at large.
Page 229 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.