Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,1 Might never reach me more. The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece, Line 1. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, I would not have a slave to till my ground, Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Line 17. Line 29. Line 40. Fast-anchor'd isle. Line 151. England, with all thy faults I love thee still, Line 206. Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause. Line 231. 1 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men! Jeremiah ix. 2. Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place! - BYRON: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 177. 2 Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt (Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free). — BODINUS: Liber i. c. 5. Lord Campbell ("Lives of the Chief Justices," vol. ii. p. 418) says that "Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave." The words attributed to Lord Mansfield, however, are not found in his judgment. They are in Hargrave's argument, May 14, 1772, where he speaks of England as "a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in." — LOFFT : Reports, p. 2. 8 See Churchill, page 413. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue. There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.1 Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. Variety 's the very spice of life.2 She that asks Her dear five hundred friends. His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Domestic happiness, thou only bliss. Of Paradise that has survived the fall! Line 285. Line 363. Line 411. Line 444. Line 606. Line 642. Line 702. Book iii. The Garden. Line 41. Great contest follows, and much learned dust. From reveries so airy, from the toil Line 161. And growing old in drawing nothing up.3 Line 188. 1 See Dryden, page 277. and 2 No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. - PUB. SYRUS: Maxim 406. 8 He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. - Lady Holland's Memoir of Sydney Smith, vol. i. p. 259. How various his employments whom the world Esteems that busy world an idler too! The Task. Book iii. The Garden, Line 352. Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. Line 566. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 34. At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Line 86. Line 118. O Winter, ruler of the inverted year! 2 With spots quadrangular of diamond form, In indolent vacuity of thought. It seems the part of wisdom. Line 120. Line 217. Line 297. Line 336. Line 478. All learned, and all drunk! 1 See Bishop Berkeley, page 312. 2 See Thomson, page 356. Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening, Line 510. Those golden times And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings, The Frenchman's darling.1 Some must be great. Great offices will have No sound of hammer or of saw was there.2 Line 514. Line 765. Line 788. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 144. But war's a game which were their subjects wise Line 187. The beggarly last doit. Line 316. As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. Line 444. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. Line 733. With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, Line 745. Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; Line 905. 1 It was Cowper who gave this now common name to the mignonette. HEBER: Palestine. So that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building. 1 Kings vi. 7. With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave; In cadence sweet! The Task. Book ri. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 1. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Line 85. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Books are not seldom talismans and spells. Line 96. Some to the fascination of a name I would not enter on my list of friends Line 101. (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, Line 560. Epistle to Joseph Hill. Shine by the side of every path we tread Tirocinium. Line 79. What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! And Satan trembles when he sees Walking with God. Exhortation to Prayer. 1 Write the vision, and make it plain, upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. - Habakkuk ii. 2. He that runs may read. - TENNYSON: The Flower. |