The TaskJohn Sharpe, Piccadilly, 1817 - 188 páginas |
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... hold her cards , But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand , To deal and shuffle , to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences ; and sits , Spectatress both and spectacle , a sad And silent cipher , while her proxy plays ...
... hold her cards , But cannot play them , borrows a friend's hand , To deal and shuffle , to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences ; and sits , Spectatress both and spectacle , a sad And silent cipher , while her proxy plays ...
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... bitter draught , That life holds out to all , should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore , ye who , borne about In chariots and sedans , know no fatigue But that 28 BOOK I. THE TASK .
... bitter draught , That life holds out to all , should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore , ye who , borne about In chariots and sedans , know no fatigue But that 28 BOOK I. THE TASK .
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... hold thee fast , Freedom ! whom they that lose thee so regret , That e'en a judgment , making way for thee , Seems ... holds , Or make his house his grave : nor so content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in ...
... hold thee fast , Freedom ! whom they that lose thee so regret , That e'en a judgment , making way for thee , Seems ... holds , Or make his house his grave : nor so content , Shall counterfeit the motions of the flood , And drown him in ...
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... hold them fast , And force them sit , till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art , That each may find its most propitious light , And shine by situation , hardly less ...
... hold them fast , And force them sit , till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art , That each may find its most propitious light , And shine by situation , hardly less ...
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... holds up to broad disgrace , The noblest function , and discredits much The brightest truths , that man has ever seen ... hold Upon the roving and untutor'd heart Soon follows , and , the curb of conscience snapp'd 50 BOOK II . THE TASK .
... holds up to broad disgrace , The noblest function , and discredits much The brightest truths , that man has ever seen ... hold Upon the roving and untutor'd heart Soon follows , and , the curb of conscience snapp'd 50 BOOK II . THE TASK .
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Términos y frases comunes
beauty beneath betimes boast breath call'd cause charms clime delights design'd distant divine dream Earth ease Ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fear feed feel flow'r folly form'd FOUNDATIONE fountain of eternal frown fruits give glory grace grave groves hand happy heart Heav'n honour human INNER TEMPLE JOHN SHARPE king labour learn'd less live lost lyre mercy Mighty winds mind mischief nature Nature's Nebaioth never o'er once palmistry peace perhaps PICCADILLY plac'd pleas'd pleasures plebeian polish'd pow'r praise proud rapture RICHARD WESTALL riddance rude rural sacred sake scene schools scorn seek seem'd shade shine sight slaves sleep sloth smile SOFA song soon soul sound stroke sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought toil touch'd trembling truth twas virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wise worth youth
Pasajes populares
Página 32 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 143 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Página 154 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half...
Página 159 - The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the' life of all that lives. Nature iS but a name for an effect Whose cause is God.
Página 10 - Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Página 10 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...
Página 45 - I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain ; And plain in manner. Decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture. Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Página 157 - And of an humbler growth, the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress, or more sable yew, Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave...
Página 145 - Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. Brutes graze the mountain-top, with faces prone, And eyes intent upon the scanty herb It yields them ; or, recumbent on its brow, Ruminate heedless of the scene outspread Beneath, beyond, and stretching far away From inland regions to the distant main.
Página 65 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.