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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TASK. THE WINTER MORNING WALK. ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK. A frotty morning?The foddering of cattle?The woodman and his dog?The poultry?Whimsica effects of a frost at a waterfall ?The empress of Russia's palace of ice?Amusements of mo- narchs?War, one of them?Wars, whence?And whence monarchy?The evils of it?English and French loyalty contracted ?The Bastilo, and a prisoner there?Lilrty the chief recommendation of this country?Modern patriotism questionable, and why?The perishable nature of the best human institutions ?Spiritual liberty not perishable?The slavish state of man by nature?Deliver him, Deist, if you can?Grace must, do it?The res]KJctive merits of patriots and martyra stated?Their different treatment?Happy freedom of the man whom race makes free? His ie ish of the works of God?Address to the Creator. 'TIS morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon; while the clouds That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, 5 Seen through the leafless wood. His slanting ray Slidos ineffectual down the snowy vale, And, tinging all with his own rosy hue, From ev'ry herb and ev'ry spiry blade Stretches a length of shadow o'er the field. 10 Mine spindling into longitude immense, In spite of gravity, and sage remark That I myself am but a fleeting shade, Provokes me to a smile. With eye askance, I view the muscular proportion'd limb 15 Transform'd to a lean shank. The shapeless pair, As tney design'd, to mock me, at my side, Take step for step; and, as I near approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, -Prepost'rous sight the legs without the man. 20 The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and t...… (lisätietoja)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TASK. THE WINTER MORNING WALK. ARGUMENT OF THE FIFTH BOOK. A frotty morning?The foddering of cattle?The woodman and his dog?The poultry?Whimsica effects of a frost at a waterfall ?The empress of Russia's palace of ice?Amusements of mo- narchs?War, one of them?Wars, whence?And whence monarchy?The evils of it?English and French loyalty contracted ?The Bastilo, and a prisoner there?Lilrty the chief recommendation of this country?Modern patriotism questionable, and why?The perishable nature of the best human institutions ?Spiritual liberty not perishable?The slavish state of man by nature?Deliver him, Deist, if you can?Grace must, do it?The res]KJctive merits of patriots and martyra stated?Their different treatment?Happy freedom of the man whom race makes free? His ie ish of the works of God?Address to the Creator. 'TIS morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon; while the clouds That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, 5 Seen through the leafless wood. His slanting ray Slidos ineffectual down the snowy vale, And, tinging all with his own rosy hue, From ev'ry herb and ev'ry spiry blade Stretches a length of shadow o'er the field. 10 Mine spindling into longitude immense, In spite of gravity, and sage remark That I myself am but a fleeting shade, Provokes me to a smile. With eye askance, I view the muscular proportion'd limb 15 Transform'd to a lean shank. The shapeless pair, As tney design'd, to mock me, at my side, Take step for step; and, as I near approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, -Prepost'rous sight the legs without the man. 20 The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and t...
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