Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1787 |
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... plain ? No. His high metal under good controul , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal Let difcipline employ her wholesome arts , Let magiftrates alert perform their parts , Nor fkulk or put on a prudential mask , As if ...
... plain ? No. His high metal under good controul , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal Let difcipline employ her wholesome arts , Let magiftrates alert perform their parts , Nor fkulk or put on a prudential mask , As if ...
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... plain , ' Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighb'ring lairs , Save that his fcent is lefs acute than their's ; For perfevering chace , and headlong leaps , True beagle as the flauncheft hound he keeps . Charg'd with the folly of his life's ...
... plain , ' Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighb'ring lairs , Save that his fcent is lefs acute than their's ; For perfevering chace , and headlong leaps , True beagle as the flauncheft hound he keeps . Charg'd with the folly of his life's ...
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... ; Their answer to the call is - Not at home .. Oh the dear pleasures of the velvet plain ,. The painted tablets , dealt and dealt again . Card Cards with what rapture , and the polish'd die , THE PROGRESS OF ERROR . 39.
... ; Their answer to the call is - Not at home .. Oh the dear pleasures of the velvet plain ,. The painted tablets , dealt and dealt again . Card Cards with what rapture , and the polish'd die , THE PROGRESS OF ERROR . 39.
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... plain to others , is obfcure to him . The will made subject to a lawless force , All is irregular , and out of course ; And judgment drunk , and brib'd to lose his way , Winks hard , and talks of darkness at noon day . A critic on the ...
... plain to others , is obfcure to him . The will made subject to a lawless force , All is irregular , and out of course ; And judgment drunk , and brib'd to lose his way , Winks hard , and talks of darkness at noon day . A critic on the ...
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... plain direction and are lost . Heav'n on fuch terms ! they cry with proud disdain , Incredible , impoffible , and vain— Rebel because ' tis eafy to obey , And scorn , for its own fake , the gracious way . These are the fober , in whofe ...
... plain direction and are lost . Heav'n on fuch terms ! they cry with proud disdain , Incredible , impoffible , and vain— Rebel because ' tis eafy to obey , And scorn , for its own fake , the gracious way . These are the fober , in whofe ...
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Стр. 234 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Стр. 234 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Стр. 261 - LITTLE inmate, full of mirth Chirping on my kitchen hearth. Wheresoe'er be thine abode, Always harbinger of good, Pay me for thy warm retreat With a song more soft and sweet ; In return thou shalt receive Such a strain as I can give.
Стр. 183 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Стр. 250 - Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the selfsame power divine Taught you.
Стр. 255 - He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Стр. 129 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Стр. 166 - Ye powers who rule the tongue, if such there are, And make colloquial happiness your care, Preserve me from the thing I dread and hate, — A duel in the form of a debate.
Стр. 67 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Стр. 68 - He praised perhaps for ages yet to come, She never heard of half a mile from home ; He lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She safe in the simplicity of hers.