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" To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task... "
The Task: A Poem in Six Books - Page 45
by William Cowper - 1811 - 212 pages
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1899 - 660 pages
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...whose very looks Reflect dishonour on the land I love. How, in the name of soldiership and sense, 225 Should England prosper, when such things, as smooth And tender as a girl, all essenced o'er With odours, and as profligate as sweet, Who sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And...
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Poems ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by John M'Diarmid ...

William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...partake Thy joys and sorrows, with as true a heart As any thund'rer there. And I can feel Thy limit's too ; and with a just disdain Frown at effeminates,...With odours, and as profligate as sweet ; Who sell then- laurel for a myrtle wreath. And love when they should fight ; when such as these Presume to lay...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...But I can feel thy fortunes and partake Thy joys and sorrows with as true a heart As any thunderer there. And I can feel Thy follies too, and with a...just disdain Frown at effeminates, whose very looks Refleet dishonour on the land ! love. How, in the name of soldiership and sense, Should England prosper,...
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...can feel thy fortunes, and partake Thy joys and sorrows, with as true a heart 220 As any thund'rer there. And I can feel Thy follies too ; and with a...I love. How in the name of soldiership and sense, 225 Should England prosper, when such things, as smooth And tender as a girl, all essenc'd o'er With...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...But I can feel thy fortunes, and partake Thy joys and sorrows, with as true a heart As any thund'rer there. And I can feel Thy follies too ; and with a just disdain Frown at effeminates, whose very louks Reflect dishonour on the land I love. How, in the name of soldiership and sense, Should England...
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... The Task, a Poem ...: For the Use of Schools and Academies

William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...partake Thy joys and sorrows, with as true a heart 220 As any thund'rer there. And I can feel Thy foljies too ; and with a just disdain Frown at effeminates,...I love. How in the name of soldiership and sense, 225 Should England prosper, when such things, as smooth And tender as a girl, all essenc'd o'er With...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...But I can feel thy fortunes, and partake Thy joys and sorrows, with as true a heart As any thunderer there. And I can feel Thy follies too ; and with a...whose very looks Reflect dishonour on the land I love. ENGLISH LIBERTY. WE love The king who loves the law, respects his bounds, And reigns content within...
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Poems, with a memoir of the author

William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...But I can feel thy fortunes, and partake Thy joys and sorrows, with as true a heart As any thunderer there. And I can feel Thy follies too ; and with a...Should England prosper, when such things, as smooth AJid tender as a girl, all essenced o'er With odours, and as profligate as sweet; Who sell therr laurel...
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The Poems of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1849 - 508 pages
...But I can feel thy fortunes, and partake Thy joys and sorrows, with as true a heart As any thunderer there. And I can feel Thy follies too ; and with a...the land I love. How, in the name of soldiership and sensw, Should England prosper, when such things, as smooth And tender as a girl, all essenced o'er...
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