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... must abridge The noble sweep of all their privilege ; Gives liberty the last , the mortal shock : Slips the slave's collar on , and snaps the lock . A. Such lofty strains embellish what Mean you teach , TABLE TALK . 25.
... must abridge The noble sweep of all their privilege ; Gives liberty the last , the mortal shock : Slips the slave's collar on , and snaps the lock . A. Such lofty strains embellish what Mean you teach , TABLE TALK . 25.
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William Cowper. A. Such lofty strains embellish what Mean you teach , you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with ...
William Cowper. A. Such lofty strains embellish what Mean you teach , you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with ...
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... teaching , or if taught Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstacy , unmanacled by form , Not prompted as in our degenerate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise , Was natural as is the ...
... teaching , or if taught Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstacy , unmanacled by form , Not prompted as in our degenerate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise , Was natural as is the ...
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... ye careless and supine , Counsel and caution from a voice like mine ! Truths , that the theorist could never reach , And observation taught me , I would teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy fills , Musical Progress of Error.
... ye careless and supine , Counsel and caution from a voice like mine ! Truths , that the theorist could never reach , And observation taught me , I would teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy fills , Musical Progress of Error.
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... , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the closet of young innocence , And teach her , unexperienced yet and green , To scribble as you scribbled at fifteen ; Who , kindling a combustion of desire , With some THE PROGRESS OF ERROR . 57.
... , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the closet of young innocence , And teach her , unexperienced yet and green , To scribble as you scribbled at fifteen ; Who , kindling a combustion of desire , With some THE PROGRESS OF ERROR . 57.
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Page 423 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Page 417 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew. Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' ' Good lack,' quoth he — ' yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Page 419 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 298 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Page 322 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 431 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Page 304 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Page 375 - All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart! / Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Page 320 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 414 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.