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"Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 17.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 29.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free! They touch our country, and their shackles fall."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 40.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!"
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 206.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 231.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 235.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 285.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 363.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 411.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 444.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Variety 's the very spice of life."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 606.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She that asks Her dear five hundred friends."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 642.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpair'd."
The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 702.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!"
The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 41.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Great contest follows, and much learned dust."
The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 161.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up."
The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 188.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 566.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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 wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 34.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Which not even critics criticise."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 51.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?"
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 55.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!"
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 120.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In indolent vacuity of thought."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 297.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It seems the part of wisdom."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 336.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"All learned, and all drunk!"
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 478.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Gloriously drunk, obey the important call."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening, Line 510.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Those golden times And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings, And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 514.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The Frenchman's darling."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 765.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill."
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 788.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Silently as a dream the fabric rose, No sound of hammer or of saw was there."
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 144.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at."
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 187.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The beggarly last doit."
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 316.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy."
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 444.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free."
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 733.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!"
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 745.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away."
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 905.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased. With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet!"
The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books."
The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 85.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells."
The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 96.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwink'd."
The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 101.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm."
The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 560.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within."
Epistle to Joseph Hill.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs may read."
Tirocinium. Line 79.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill."
Walking with God.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees."
Exhortation to Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm."
Light shining out of Darkness.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain