 Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler - Page 111by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...task enjoin'd ; but till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wild. Thou therefore now advise, Or bear what to my mind first thoughts present : Let us divide our labours... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labor grows, Luxurious by restraint : what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wild. Thou therefore now advise, Or bear what to my mind first thoughts present : Let us divide our labors... | |
 | 1822 - 376 pages
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 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...work outgrew The hands' despatch of two gardening so wide, And Eve first to her husband thus began: Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night...or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wild. Thou therefore now advise, Or bear what to my mind first thoughts present: Let us divide our labors;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1823 - 458 pages
...Drawn back, redounded (as a flood) on those From whom it sprung; impossible to mix With blessedness. What we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...bow'rs doubt not but our joint hands Will keep from wilderness with ease as wide As we need walk, till younger hands ere long Assist tts. The rest in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 514 pages
...back, redounded (as a flood) on those * From whom it sprung' ; impossible to mix With blessedness. What we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...bow'rs doubt not but our joint hands Will keep from wilderness with ease as wide As we need walk, till younger hands ere long Assist us. The rest in the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...redounded, as a flood on those From whom it s/irung; impossible to mix With blessedness, — ib. 56. — What we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild. — ib. ix. 209. These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands Will keep from wilderness with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1823 - 422 pages
...redounded, as a flood on those From whom it sprung; impossible to mix With blessedness.— it. 56. — What we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or...or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild. — ib. ix. S09. These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands . Will keep from wilderness with... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...Drawn back, redounded (as a flood) on those From whom it sprung ; impossible to mix With blessedness. What we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth deride*, Tending to wild. The paths and bow'rs doubt not but our joint hands Will keep from wilderness... | |
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