John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Cowper. (1731–1800) (continued) |
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| How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! |
| The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 352. |
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| Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. |
| The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 566. |
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| I burn to set the imprison’d wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate 1 wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 34. |
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| Which not even critics criticise. |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 51. |
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| What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns? |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 55. |
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| And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. ’T is 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. |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 86. |
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| While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 118. |
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| O Winter, ruler of the inverted year! 2 |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 120. |
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| With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 217. |
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| In indolent vacuity of thought. |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 297. |
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| It seems the part of wisdom. |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 336. |
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| All learned, and all drunk! |
| The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 478. |
| Note 1. See Bishop Berkeley, Quotation 3. [back] |
| Note 2. See Thomson, Quotation 21. [back] |