The Task, and Other PoemsGeorge M'Dowell and Son, 1831 - 179 páginas |
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... skill ; 420 Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws Italian light on English walls : 425 But imitative strokes can do no more ' Than please the eye - sweet Nature's ev'ry sense 18 THE ...
... skill ; 420 Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws Italian light on English walls : 425 But imitative strokes can do no more ' Than please the eye - sweet Nature's ev'ry sense 18 THE ...
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... skill have they in palmistry , and more 570 To conjure clean away the gold they touch , Conveying worthless dross into its place ; Loud when they beg , dumb only when they steal . Strange ! that a creature rational , and cast In human ...
... skill have they in palmistry , and more 570 To conjure clean away the gold they touch , Conveying worthless dross into its place ; Loud when they beg , dumb only when they steal . Strange ! that a creature rational , and cast In human ...
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... skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence , and squander life . The dream is past ; and thou hast found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , 640 And homestall thatch'd with leaves . But hast thou found Their former charms ...
... skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence , and squander life . The dream is past ; and thou hast found again Thy cocoas and bananas , palms and yams , 640 And homestall thatch'd with leaves . But hast thou found Their former charms ...
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... skill 275 280 To those that need it . Folly is soon learn'd ! And under such preceptors who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetick pains , 285 Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , Th ' expedients and inventions multiform ...
... skill 275 280 To those that need it . Folly is soon learn'd ! And under such preceptors who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetick pains , 285 Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , Th ' expedients and inventions multiform ...
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... skill than force . Proud of his well - spread walls , he views his trees , That meet no barren interval between , 410 With pleasure more than e'en their fruits afford ; Which save himself who trains them , none can feel . These ...
... skill than force . Proud of his well - spread walls , he views his trees , That meet no barren interval between , 410 With pleasure more than e'en their fruits afford ; Which save himself who trains them , none can feel . These ...
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Términos y frases comunes
beauty beneath betimes boast breath call'd cause charms clime delights design'd distant divine domestick dread dream e'en earth ease ev'ry fair fame fancy fear feed feel field of glory flow'r folly form'd fountain of eternal frown fruits give glory Gothick grace grave groves hand happy heart Heav'n honour human JOSEPH HILL king labour lanquid learn'd less lost lyre magick mercy Mighty winds mind mischief musick nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once peace perhaps plac'd pleas'd pleasures polish'd pow'r praise proud publick rapture riddance rude rural sacred scene schools scorn seek seem'd shade shine sight slaves sleep sloth smile Sofa song soon soul sound sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thou hast toil touch'd trembling truth Twas virtue wand'ring WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wise worth youth
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Página 30 - 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 30 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast...
Página 77 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 55 - 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 th
Página 139 - 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.
Página 38 - Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Página 126 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 40 - 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 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.
Página 163 - That, viewing it, we seem almost t' obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.