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... Hope , and Charity , and touch'd with awe The solemn chords , and , with a trembling hand , Escaped with pain from that adventurous flight , B Now seek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme THE TASK, IN SIX BOOKS The Sofa.
... Hope , and Charity , and touch'd with awe The solemn chords , and , with a trembling hand , Escaped with pain from that adventurous flight , B Now seek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme THE TASK, IN SIX BOOKS The Sofa.
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... hand ! Lovely indeed the mimic works of Art ; But Nature's works far lovelier . I admire , None more admires , the painter's magic skill , Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws ...
... hand ! Lovely indeed the mimic works of Art ; But Nature's works far lovelier . I admire , None more admires , the painter's magic skill , Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws ...
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... 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 . Others are dragg'd into the crowded room Between supporters ...
... 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 . Others are dragg'd into the crowded room Between supporters ...
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... hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil ; Not rude and surly , and beset with thorns , And terrible to sight , as when she springs ( If e'er she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes , where violence prevails ...
... hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil ; Not rude and surly , and beset with thorns , And terrible to sight , as when she springs ( If e'er she spring spontaneous ) in remote And barbarous climes , where violence prevails ...
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... hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime , and travel where we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man , That ...
... hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause ? Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime , and travel where we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man , That ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath betimes bird boast breath call'd cause charms CHISWICK dæmons death delight design'd distant divine dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fear feed feel flowers folly form'd fountain of eternal frown fruit give glory GLOWWORM grace grave hand happy hast heard heart heaven honour human labour less life's live lost lyre Mighty winds mind muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once peace perhaps PINEAPPLE pity pleasure praise press'd prize proud rest rude scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shrubs sighs sight skies slaves sleep sloth smile smooth soft song soon soul sound spaniel spare spleen stamp'd sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought THRACIAN toil touch'd trembling truth Twas virtue voice WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worth youth