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The Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer - Page 341
1836
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1803 - 310 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value, what no thought can ascertain, Ndr all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...shadowy, no dream.) ..,,.. Its value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life as children with their play. Who first misuse then cast their toys away; Live to no •9ber purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. '. . , When God and...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1808 - 330 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; It's value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1812 - 396 pages
...shadowy, no dream; It's value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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Table Talk, and Other Poems

William Cowper - 1817 - 234 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life, as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend, That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Wen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain. Men deal with life as children with their play. Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 36

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain, Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That their Creator had no serious end. When God and man stand...
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The poems of William Cowper, with notes from his own correspondence

William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...shadowy, no dream ; Its value, what no thought can ascertain, Nor all an angel's eloquence explain ; Men deal with life as children with their play Who first misuse, then cast their toys away ; Live to no sober purpose, and contend That then- Creator ha!d no serious end. When God and man stand...
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