 But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free....  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 31by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...favour by the *Lu- & f** Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn. But, now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy; so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly, " Now my task \> smoothly done, 1 can fly, or I can run," to skim the earth, to soar...the balmy smells of nard and cassia, which the musky winds of the zephyr scatter through the cedared alleys of the Hesperides.* There are several of the... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...freedom and beauty; he seems to cry exultingly, " Now my MA ts sninnthly done, 1 CMM fly, nr I can FUN," e execution of his design. The times were, in some...experiment. The system of ! military tactics had undergone a winch the musky winds of the zephyr scatter through the cedared alleys of the Hespefides.* There are... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be bom, I0I0 Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn. But Quickly to the green earth's end, Whare the bow'd welkin slow duth bend; And from thence can soar as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 658 pages
...and weeds of Thyrsis, he stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly, " Now my task is smoothly done, I can fly or I can run,"...the balmy smells of nard and cassia, which the musky winds of the zephyr scatter through the cedared alleys of the Hesperides. There are several of the... | |
 | Education - 1853 - 410 pages
...MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER. Vol. VI. No. 6.] WC GOLDTHWAITE, EDITOR or THIB Nojnu,u [June, 1853. VACATIONS. " Now my task is smoothly done ; I can fly or I can run." THAT faithful teachers lead a life of some labor is quite true. No one should think of " waiting on... | |
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy: so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...imitation, and the lines toward the end are inferior in beauty to the original. The couplet, ' But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run,' is transplanted almost verbally from the first speech of the Satyr : ' I must go, and I must run, Swifter... | |
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