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The task. [Followed by] Tirocinium: or, A review of schools - Page 15
by William Cowper - 1822
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The Task: In Six Books

William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...lost its glare, And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Vour fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant...beneath The checker'd earth seems restless as a flood Brush M by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, Shadow...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...have lost his glare, And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues I once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives. 340 How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet aweful as the consecrated roof56 * See the foregoing...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...have lost his glare, And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives. 340 How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet aweful as the consecrated roof26 M See the foregoing...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...have lost his glare, And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a...and how light the graceful arch, Yet awful as the conseerated roof Re-echoing pious anthems ! while heneath The chequer'd earth seems restless as a flood...
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...have lost his glare, And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives. 340 How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet awful as the consecrated roof Re-echoing pious anthems...
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... The Task, a Poem ...: For the Use of Schools and Academies

William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...have lost his glare, And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives. 340 How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet awful as the consecrated roof Re-echoing pious anthems...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...tops, where lights and shadows dance upon the grass on a sunny day, when the breezes are astir : " How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet awful as the consecrated roof Re-echoing pious anthems 1 while beneath The chequered earth seems restless as a flood Brushed by the wind. So sportive is the...
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Proceedings, Volume 38

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...have lost his glare, And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime. Ye fallen avenues ! once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives. ***** And now with nerves new braced, and spirits cheered, We tread the wilderness, whole well-roll'd...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 15

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...guard £ach avenue and station* Glover's Athenaid, book xviii. Ye fallen avenues / once more I mourn Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice That yet a remnant of your race survives. Cowper's Task. Let me suppose your performance has merit ; let me suppose you have surmounted the teasing...
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First Impressions of England and Its People

Hugh Miller - England - 1847 - 454 pages
...glossv trunks form stately columns, and the branches, interlacing high over head, a magnificent roof. " How airy and how light the graceful arch, Yet awful...consecrated roof Re-echoing pious anthems! while beneath The chequered earth seems restless as a flood Brushed by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through...
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