Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 398
... hour To sleep within the carriage more secure , His legs depending at the open door . Sweet sleep enjoys the Curate in his desk , The tedious Rector drawling o'er his head1 And sweet the Clerk below : but neither sleep Of lazy Nurse ...
... hour To sleep within the carriage more secure , His legs depending at the open door . Sweet sleep enjoys the Curate in his desk , The tedious Rector drawling o'er his head1 And sweet the Clerk below : but neither sleep Of lazy Nurse ...
Page 473
... hour to me So spent in parlour twilight ; such a gloom Suits well the thoughtful or unthinking mind , The mind contemplative , with some new theme Pregnant , or indisposed alike to all . Laugh ye , who boast your more mercurial pow'rs ...
... hour to me So spent in parlour twilight ; such a gloom Suits well the thoughtful or unthinking mind , The mind contemplative , with some new theme Pregnant , or indisposed alike to all . Laugh ye , who boast your more mercurial pow'rs ...
Page 772
... hour was all that I could secure for the purpose . But there was no remedy : long usage had made that which at first ... hours , which had their share , together with the more powerful cause assigned above , in determining my behaviour ...
... hour was all that I could secure for the purpose . But there was no remedy : long usage had made that which at first ... hours , which had their share , together with the more powerful cause assigned above , in determining my behaviour ...
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