Presume to lay their hand upon the ark

Of her magnificent and awful cause.

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

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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.[419:1]