Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Retirement. Line 691. I praise the Frenchman,1 his remark was shrewd, I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. Line 739. The Yearly Distress. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? But the sound of the church-going bell How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. There goes the parson, O illustrious spark! On observing some Names of Little Note. And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. Human Frailty. 1 La Bruyère. And the tear that is wiped with a little address, I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau Misses! the tale that I relate The Rose. A Fable. Moral. Pairing Time Anticipated. Ibid. And Gilpin long live he; And when he next doth ride abroad, The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. Ibid. To an Afflicted Protestant Lady. United yet divided, twain at once. So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.1 The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 77. Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, Line 181. And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. Line 506. 1 Two Kings of Brentford, from Buckingham's play of The Rehearsal. God made the country, and man made the town.1 for a lodge in some vast wilderness,2 Might never reach me more. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 1. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Line 17. Line 29. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Fast-anchored isle. Line 151. England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!4 Line 206. Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Line 231. Praise enough Of her magnificent and awful cause. To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue. 1 Compare Bacon, Essays, Of Gardens. Page 138. Line 235. 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!-Jeremiah ix. 2. 3 Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt. - Bodinus, Liber i. c. 5. 4 Compare Churchill, The Farewell. Page 357. There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.1 The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 285. Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes. Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, Line 363. And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. Line 411. Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. Line 444. That gives it all its flavour. Variety 's the very spice of life, She that asks His head, Her dear five hundred friends. Not yet by time completely silvered o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Line 606. Line 642. Line 702. 1 Compare Dryden, Spanish Friar. Page 230. Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too. The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 566. I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, Book iv. Winter Evening. Line 34. Which not even critics criticise. And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Line 51. Line 86. Line 118. Line 120. Line 217. 1 Compare Bishop Berkeley, Siris. Page 260. 2 It was Cowper who gave this now common name to the migno nette. |