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... In boundlefs oceans never to be paffed By navigators uninformed as they , Or ploughed perhaps by British bark again : But far beyond the reft , and with moft caufe Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee 26 BOOK I. THE TASK .
... In boundlefs oceans never to be paffed By navigators uninformed as they , Or ploughed perhaps by British bark again : But far beyond the reft , and with moft caufe Thee , gentle favage ! whom no love of thee 26 BOOK I. THE TASK .
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... perhaps , Or elfe vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bowers , to fhew thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence , and fquander life . The dream is paft ; and thou haft found again Thy ...
... perhaps , Or elfe vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bowers , to fhew thee here With what fuperior skill we can abuse The gifts of Providence , and fquander life . The dream is paft ; and thou haft found again Thy ...
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... Perhaps errs little when the paints thee thús . She tells me too that duly every morn Thou climbeft the mountain top , with eager eye Exploring far and wide the watery waste For fight of fhip from England . Every speck Seen in the dim ...
... Perhaps errs little when the paints thee thús . She tells me too that duly every morn Thou climbeft the mountain top , with eager eye Exploring far and wide the watery waste For fight of fhip from England . Every speck Seen in the dim ...
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... perhaps Aware of nothing arduous in a task , They never undertook , they little note His dangers or escapes , and haply find Their leaft amusement where he found the moft . But is amusement all ? Studious of fong , And yet ambitious not ...
... perhaps Aware of nothing arduous in a task , They never undertook , they little note His dangers or escapes , and haply find Their leaft amusement where he found the moft . But is amusement all ? Studious of fong , And yet ambitious not ...
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William Cowper. Drops from the lips a difregarded thing . The weak perhaps are moved , but are not taught , While prejudice in men of ftronger minds Takes deeper root , confirmed by what they fee . A relaxation of religion's hold Upon ...
William Cowper. Drops from the lips a difregarded thing . The weak perhaps are moved , but are not taught , While prejudice in men of ftronger minds Takes deeper root , confirmed by what they fee . A relaxation of religion's hold Upon ...
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Page 36 - 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.
Page 35 - My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Page 214 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us ! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 206 - 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.
Page 37 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 217 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! it was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood. Thy saints proclaim thee king ; and in their hearts Thy title is engraven with a pen Dipp'd in the fountain of eternal love.
Page 118 - Me oft has fancy, ludicrous and wild, Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages expressed In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
Page 185 - The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Page 329 - And swing his rump around. His frisking was at evening hours, For then he lost his fear, But most before approaching showers Or when a storm drew near. Eight years and five round-rolling moons He thus saw steal away, Dozing out all his idle noons, And every night at play. I kept him for his humour's sake, For he would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile.
Page 13 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...