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All learned, and all drunk! - Task (bk. IV, l. 478) [Intemperance] He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back. - Task (bk. IV, l. 5) [Journalism] Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids! - Task (bk. IV, l. 504) [Wine and Spirits] Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. - Task (bk. IV, l. 510) [Intemperance] What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? - Task (bk. IV, l. 55) [Life] On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. - Task (bk. IV, l. 58) [Ambition] He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air, His form and movement. - Task (bk. IV, l. 638) [Soldiers] 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd. - Task (bk. IV, l. 88) [World] With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. - Task (bk. IV, The Winter Evening, l. 217) [Cards] In indolent vacuity of thought. - Task (bk. IV, The Winter Evening, l. 297) [Thought] Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there. - Task (bk. V, l. 144) [Architecture] The town is man's world, but this (country life) is of God. - Task (bk. V, l. 16) [Country Life] But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. - Task (bk. V, l. 187) [War] Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone To rev'rence what is ancient, and can plead A course of long observance for its use, That even servitude, the worst of ills, Because deliver'd down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! - Task (bk. V, l. 298) [Custom] We are his, To serve him nobly in the common cause, True to the death, but not to be his slaves. - Task (bk. V, l. 340) [Service] Out love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free. - Task (bk. V, l. 353) [Love] 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. - Task (bk. V, l. 446) [Liberty] The still small voice is wanted. - Task (bk. V, l. 687) [Conscience] He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. - Task (bk. V, l. 733) [Freedom] Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. - Task (bk. V, l. 782) [God] Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. - Task (bk. V, l. 882) [Liberty] The beggarly last doit. - Task (bk. V, The Winter Morning Walk, l. 126) [Poverty] All has its date below; the fatal hour Was register'd in Heav'n ere time began. We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works Die too. - Task (bk. V, The Winter Morning Walk, l. 540) [Death] But who with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all. - Task (bk. V, The Winter Morning Walk, l. 745) [God] An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live. - Task (bk. VI) [Humanity] Displaying page 12 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14
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