 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
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...The pnmfr'i hand with letting blood must quench MIY heat, and thy ejub'rant parts retrench. Denham. What we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild. Millón t í'aradise Lost. Horace will our superfluous... | |
 | Zenas Campbell - Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements) - 1829 - 184 pages
...overgrown, Derides and spurns our care ; Thou therefore mayest now advise, Or my first thoughts may hear i Or prune, or prop, or bind. One night or two with wanton growth 159 Let us divide our labors now; Thou where thy choice leads thee, Whether to tend thy plants, or... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 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 bind, 210 One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild. Thou therefore now advise, Or bear... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...task enjoined ; 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;... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 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 hear what to my mind first thoughts present. Let us divide our labours;... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 510 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 hear what to my mind first thoughts present : Let us divide our labour... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 526 pages
...task enjoiu'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 hear what to my mind first thoughts present. Let us divide our labours;... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 512 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 hear what to my mind first thoughts present. Let us divide our labours;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...those From whom it sprung ; impossible to mix With blasednat. -What we by day •4 *' nni we ny umy Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night...wanton growth derides, Tending to wild. The paths and bowers doiibt not but our joint hands Will keep from wilderness with ease as wide As we need walk,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...task enjoin'd ; but till more hands Aid us, the work under our labor grows, Luxurious by restraint ; There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended...therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Thou therefore now advise, Or bear what to my mind first thoughts present : Let us divide our labors... | |
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