Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 361
... fair although and feasible it seem , Depend not much upon your golden dream ; For Providence that seems concern'd t ' exempt The hallow'd bench from absolute contempt , In spite of all the wrigglers into place , Still keeps a seat or ...
... fair although and feasible it seem , Depend not much upon your golden dream ; For Providence that seems concern'd t ' exempt The hallow'd bench from absolute contempt , In spite of all the wrigglers into place , Still keeps a seat or ...
Page 506
... FAIR.2 Spare not in such a cause . Spend all the pow'rs 1 " The wicked ... go astray as soon as they be born , speaking lies . Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear , which ...
... FAIR.2 Spare not in such a cause . Spend all the pow'rs 1 " The wicked ... go astray as soon as they be born , speaking lies . Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear , which ...
Page 510
... Fair as it is , existed ere it was . Not for its own sake merely , but for his Much more who fashioned it , he gives it praise ; Praise that from earth resulting as it ought , To earth's acknowledg'd sov'reign , finds at once Its only ...
... Fair as it is , existed ere it was . Not for its own sake merely , but for his Much more who fashioned it , he gives it praise ; Praise that from earth resulting as it ought , To earth's acknowledg'd sov'reign , finds at once Its only ...
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