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... poor ; Ambitious of preferment for it's gold , And well - prepar'd , by ignorance and slotlı , By infidelity and love of world , To make God's work a sinecure ; a slave To his own pleasures and his patron's pride ; From such apostles ...
... poor ; Ambitious of preferment for it's gold , And well - prepar'd , by ignorance and slotlı , By infidelity and love of world , To make God's work a sinecure ; a slave To his own pleasures and his patron's pride ; From such apostles ...
Page 57
... poor pittance - Fortune , most severe Of goddesses yet known , and costlier far Than all , that held their routs in Juno's Heav'n.- So fare we in this prisonhouse the World ; And ' tis a fearful spectacle to see So many maniacs dancing ...
... poor pittance - Fortune , most severe Of goddesses yet known , and costlier far Than all , that held their routs in Juno's Heav'n.- So fare we in this prisonhouse the World ; And ' tis a fearful spectacle to see So many maniacs dancing ...
Page 73
... poor shallow lamp In playing tricks with nature , giving laws To distant worlds , and trifling in their own . Is't not a pity now , that tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs , and blear the sight Of oracles like these ? Great ...
... poor shallow lamp In playing tricks with nature , giving laws To distant worlds , and trifling in their own . Is't not a pity now , that tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs , and blear the sight Of oracles like these ? Great ...
Page 77
... own ? What pearl is it , that rich men cannot buy , That learning is too proud to gather up ; But which the poor , and the despis'd of all , Seek and obtain , and often find unsought ; Tell H 3 BOOK III . 77 THE GARDEN .
... own ? What pearl is it , that rich men cannot buy , That learning is too proud to gather up ; But which the poor , and the despis'd of all , Seek and obtain , and often find unsought ; Tell H 3 BOOK III . 77 THE GARDEN .
Page 78
... poor brutes We persecute , annihilate the tribes , That draw the sportsman over hill and dale Fearless and rapt away from all his cares ; Should never game - fowl hatch her eggs again , Nor baited hook deceive the fish's eye ; Could ...
... poor brutes We persecute , annihilate the tribes , That draw the sportsman over hill and dale Fearless and rapt away from all his cares ; Should never game - fowl hatch her eggs again , Nor baited hook deceive the fish's eye ; Could ...
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Aspasio beauty beneath betimes boast breath call'd cause charms creature dæmons death delight design'd distant divine dread dream Earth ease ev'n ev'ry ev'ry night fair fame fancy fear feed feel flow'r folly form'd fountain of eternal fruit give glory grace grave hand happy hast heard heart Heav'n honour human labour learn'd less liberty life's live lost lov'd lyre Mighty winds mind nature Nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace perhaps pleas'd pleasure plebeian polish'd pow'r praise proud Puss quake rapture rest rude rural sacred scene seek seem'd shade shine sigh silent clock skies sleep sloth smile SOFA song soon soul sound Stamp'd sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art thought toil trembling truth Twas Virg virtue walnut shade waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wise worth youth
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Page 198 - 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 277 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or confectionary plum...
Page 105 - Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art...
Page 34 - 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 48 - 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.
Page 33 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man; the nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own; and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Page 106 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, . And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...
Page 277 - Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorned in Heaven, though little noticed here.
Page 33 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 107 - Made vocal for the amusement of the rest ; The sprightly lyre, whose treasure of sweet sounds The touch from many a trembling chord shakes out ; And the clear voice, symphonious, yet distinct, And in the charming strife triumphant still, Beguile the night, and set a keener edge On female industry : the threaded steel Flies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds.