The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and Months of the Year, Their Changes, Employments, Lessons, and Pleasures |
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Page 337
... toil Is well repaid ; if exercise were pain Indeed , and temperance pain . By arts like these ' Laconia nursed of old her hardy sons ; And Rome's unconquered legions urged their way , Unhurt , through every toil in every clime . TOIL ...
... toil Is well repaid ; if exercise were pain Indeed , and temperance pain . By arts like these ' Laconia nursed of old her hardy sons ; And Rome's unconquered legions urged their way , Unhurt , through every toil in every clime . TOIL ...
Page 494
... toil immense , Toil of the patriarchs , with sublime intent Themselves and long posterity to serve . WATERING THE FLOCKS AT ORIENTAL WELLS ; JACOB AND RACHEL . There , at the public hour of sultry noon , They share the beverage , when ...
... toil immense , Toil of the patriarchs , with sublime intent Themselves and long posterity to serve . WATERING THE FLOCKS AT ORIENTAL WELLS ; JACOB AND RACHEL . There , at the public hour of sultry noon , They share the beverage , when ...
Page 506
... toil of needless hands . A wheel , invisible , beneath the floor , To every member of the harmonious frame Gives necessary motion . One , intent , O'erlooks the work : the carded wool , he says , Is smoothly lapped around those ...
... toil of needless hands . A wheel , invisible , beneath the floor , To every member of the harmonious frame Gives necessary motion . One , intent , O'erlooks the work : the carded wool , he says , Is smoothly lapped around those ...
Contents
Mrs Hemanss Voice of Spring | 52 |
HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS | 70 |
SUMMER pp 135296 | 135 |
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