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... - box at the midnight hour , To sleep within the carriage more secure , His legs depending at the open door . Sweet sleep enjoys the curate in his desk , The tedious rector drawling o'er his head ; And sweet 6 BOOK I. THE TASK .
... - box at the midnight hour , To sleep within the carriage more secure , His legs depending at the open door . Sweet sleep enjoys the curate in his desk , The tedious rector drawling o'er his head ; And sweet 6 BOOK I. THE TASK .
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... hour , To slumber in the carriage more secure ; Nor sleep enjoy'd by curate in his desk ; Nor yet the dozings of the ... hours , that sorrow since has much endear'd , How oft , my slice of pocket store consum'd , Still hung'ring ...
... hour , To slumber in the carriage more secure ; Nor sleep enjoy'd by curate in his desk ; Nor yet the dozings of the ... hours , that sorrow since has much endear'd , How oft , my slice of pocket store consum'd , Still hung'ring ...
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... hours of sweetest ease . The sedentary stretch their lazy length When Custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk , And wither'd muscle , and the ...
... hours of sweetest ease . The sedentary stretch their lazy length When Custom bids , but no refreshment find , For none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk , And wither'd muscle , and the ...
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... hour is come , When , having no stake left , no pledge t ' endear Her int❜rests , or that gives her sacred cause A moment's operation on his love , He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal To serve his country . Ministerial grace ...
... hour is come , When , having no stake left , no pledge t ' endear Her int❜rests , or that gives her sacred cause A moment's operation on his love , He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal To serve his country . Ministerial grace ...
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... salt preserves thee ; more corrupted else , And therefore more obnoxious , at this hour , Than Sodom in her day had pow'r to be , For whom God heard his Abr'ham plead in vain . BOOK IV . Sleep seems their only refuge . For THE GARDEN . 89.
... salt preserves thee ; more corrupted else , And therefore more obnoxious , at this hour , Than Sodom in her day had pow'r to be , For whom God heard his Abr'ham plead in vain . BOOK IV . Sleep seems their only refuge . For THE GARDEN . 89.
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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
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 154 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes and more than half...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.