"I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume."

Conversation. Line 283.

"The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge."

Conversation. Line 299.

"His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home."

Conversation. Line 303.

"Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns."

Conversation. Line 357.

"That good diffused may more abundant grow."

Conversation. Line 443.

"A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels."

Retirement. Line 614.

"Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."

Retirement. Line 623.

"An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands."

Retirement. Line 681.

"Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn."

Retirement. Line 688.

"Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark."

Retirement. Line 691.

"I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd,-- How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet."

Retirement. Line 739.

"A kick that scarce would move a horse May kill a sound divine."

The Yearly Distress.

"I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute."

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

"O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?"

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

"But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard; Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd."

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

"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."

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

"There goes the parson, O illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk."

On observing some Names of Little Note.

"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.

"And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile."

The Rose.

"'T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours."

A Fable. Moral.

"I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no."

Pairing Time Anticipated.

"Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry,-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry."

Pairing Time Anticipated.

"That though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind."

History of John Gilpin.

"A hat not much the worse for wear."

History of John Gilpin.

"Now let us sing, Long live the king! And Gilpin, Long live he! And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!"

History of John Gilpin.

"The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown."

To an Afflicted Protestant Lady.

"United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne."

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 Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 181.

"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."

The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 506.

"Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade."

The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 673.

"God made the country, and man made the town."

The Task. Book i. The Sofa. Line 749.

"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.

"Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one."

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 17.

"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.

"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.

"England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!"

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 206.

"Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause."

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 231.

"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.

"There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know."

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 285.

"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.

"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.

"Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not."

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 444.

"Variety 's the very spice of life."

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 606.

"She that asks Her dear five hundred friends."

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 642.

"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.

"Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!"

The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 41.

"Great contest follows, and much learned dust."

The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 161.

"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.

"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.

"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 566.