The Task And Other Poems1891 |
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Page 22
... smiles , descends towards the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . The love of Nature ...
... smiles , descends towards the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , Ease , when courted most , Farthest retires - an idol , at whose shrine Who oftenest sacrifice are favoured least . The love of Nature ...
Page 24
... smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedlar's pack that bows the bearer down . Health suffers ...
... smiles , and bloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys That palls and satiates , and makes languid life A pedlar's pack that bows the bearer down . Health suffers ...
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... smiles , slides off Fastidious , seeking less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the sheltered vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us , happy to renounce a while , Not senseless of its charms , what still we ...
... smiles , slides off Fastidious , seeking less familiar scenes . Then snug enclosures in the sheltered vale , Where frequent hedges intercept the eye , Delight us , happy to renounce a while , Not senseless of its charms , what still we ...
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... smile , Can boast but little virtue ; and inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners , victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
... smile , Can boast but little virtue ; and inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners , victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
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... smile , Though at their own destruction . She that asks Her dear five hundred friends , contemns them all , And hates their coming . They ( what can they less ? ) Make just reprisals , and , with cringe and shrug And bow obsequious ...
... smile , Though at their own destruction . She that asks Her dear five hundred friends , contemns them all , And hates their coming . They ( what can they less ? ) Make just reprisals , and , with cringe and shrug And bow obsequious ...
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