 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade i There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from...of servile toil, * Daily' in the common prison else injoin'd me, Whtre I a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw Volume III. H The air imprison'd also,... | |
 | 1798 - 618 pages
...hand To these darktteps, a little furflxr on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun, or shade : There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from...task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin 'd me; Where I, a prisoner chain' d, scarse freely draw The air imprison' d also, close and... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...To these dark steps, a little farther on ; For yonder bank hath choice of sun and shade; There am I wont to sit when any chance ; Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily in'the common prison else enjoin'd me.... ....O, wherefore was my birth from heav'n foretold Twice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...had suffered the wrong, but commonly all runs into the prince's coffers. There I, a pris'ncr cha'm'd, scarce freely draw The air imprison'd also, close and damp, Unwholesome draught ; but here I feel amrnJr, The breath of heav'n fresh blowing, pure and tweet, With day-spring born ; here leave me to... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...hand To these dark steps, a little farther on ; For yonder bank hath choice of sun and shade ; There I am wont to sit when any chance Relieves me from...task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me—• —O wherefore was my birth from heav'u foretold Twice by an angel ?— —Why was... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...hand To these dark steps, a little further on ; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade : There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my ttsk of servile toil, o 3 . Daily in the common prison else injoin'd me, Where I a piisoner chain'd,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 310 pages
...in the common prison else enjoin.d me.—• —O wherefore was my birth from Heav.n foretold There I am wont to sit when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, , —Why was my breeding order.d and prescrib.d, As of a person separate to God, Design's for great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...hand To these dark steps, a little further on ; For yonder bank hath choice of sun and shade ; There I am wont to sit when any chance Relieves me from...task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me.— — O wherefore was my birth from heav'n foretold Twice by an angel > — .—Why was... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...hand To these dark steps, a little further on: For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade : There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from...task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me, Where I, a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw The air imprison'd also, close and damp,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...hand To these dark steps, a little further on : For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade : There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from...task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me, Where I, a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw The air imprison'd also, close and damp,... | |
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