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... pleasure . - Change of scene some- times expedient . - A common described , and the cha- racter of crazy Kate introduced . - Gipsies . The blessings of civilized life . — That state most favour- able to virtue . - The South Sea ...
... pleasure . - Change of scene some- times expedient . - A common described , and the cha- racter of crazy Kate introduced . - Gipsies . The blessings of civilized life . — That state most favour- able to virtue . - The South Sea ...
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... pleasure fuch as love , Confirmed by long experience of thy worth And well - tried virtues , could alone inspire- Witness a joy that thou hast doubled long . Thou knoweft my praise of nature most fincere , And that my raptures are not ...
... pleasure fuch as love , Confirmed by long experience of thy worth And well - tried virtues , could alone inspire- Witness a joy that thou hast doubled long . Thou knoweft my praise of nature most fincere , And that my raptures are not ...
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... under fuch preceptors who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains , Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , The expedients and inventions multiform , To which the mind reforts , in chase of terms 46 BOOK 11 . THE TASK .
... under fuch preceptors who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains , Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , The expedients and inventions multiform , To which the mind reforts , in chase of terms 46 BOOK 11 . THE TASK .
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William Cowper. To make God's work a finecure ; a slave To his own pleasures and his patron's pride From fuch apoftles , oh ye mitred heads , Preferve the church ! and lay not careless hands On fculls , that cannot teach , and will not ...
William Cowper. To make God's work a finecure ; a slave To his own pleasures and his patron's pride From fuch apoftles , oh ye mitred heads , Preferve the church ! and lay not careless hands On fculls , that cannot teach , and will not ...
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... pleasure hopeless of fuccefs ; Wafte youth in occupations only fit For fecond childhood , and devote old age To fports , which only childhood could excufe . There they are happieft , who diffemble beft Their weariness ; and they the ...
... pleasure hopeless of fuccefs ; Wafte youth in occupations only fit For fecond childhood , and devote old age To fports , which only childhood could excufe . There they are happieft , who diffemble beft Their weariness ; and they the ...
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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...