The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 765.
Some must be great. Great offices will have
Great talents. And God gives to every man
The virtue, temper, understanding, taste,
That lifts him into life, and lets him fall
Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.
The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 788.
Silently as a dream the fabric rose,
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.[421:2]
The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. Line 144.