The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... all disappointments , attest the truth of the allegation . His quarrel therefore is with the mischief at large , and not with any particular instance of it . THE TASK . BOOK I. The Sofa . Historical deduction 6 ADVERTISEMENT .
... all disappointments , attest the truth of the allegation . His quarrel therefore is with the mischief at large , and not with any particular instance of it . THE TASK . BOOK I. The Sofa . Historical deduction 6 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... Truth , Hope , and Charity , and touched with awe The solemn chords , and with a trembling hand , Escaped with pain from that adventurous flight , Now seek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud ...
... Truth , Hope , and Charity , and touched with awe The solemn chords , and with a trembling hand , Escaped with pain from that adventurous flight , Now seek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud ...
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... truth matured . War and the chase engross the savage whole ; War follow'd for revenge , or to supplant The envied tenants of some happier spot : The chase for sustenance , precarious trust ; His hard condition with severe constraint ...
... truth matured . War and the chase engross the savage whole ; War follow'd for revenge , or to supplant The envied tenants of some happier spot : The chase for sustenance , precarious trust ; His hard condition with severe constraint ...
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... Truth , And centring all authority in modes And customs of her own , till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms , And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced . God made the country , and man made the town . What wonder ...
... Truth , And centring all authority in modes And customs of her own , till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms , And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced . God made the country , and man made the town . What wonder ...
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... thwart his plan ; Then God might be surprised , and unforeseen Contingence might alarm him , and disturb The smooth and equal course of his affairs . This truth Philosophy , though eagle - eyed In nature's 36 B. II . THE TASK .
... thwart his plan ; Then God might be surprised , and unforeseen Contingence might alarm him , and disturb The smooth and equal course of his affairs . This truth Philosophy , though eagle - eyed In nature's 36 B. II . THE TASK .
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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.