Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 371
... human feelings . Turn to them . may reach To you then , tenants of life's middle state , Securely placed between the small and great , Whose character , yet undebauch'd , retains Two thirds of all the virtue that remains , Who wise ...
... human feelings . Turn to them . may reach To you then , tenants of life's middle state , Securely placed between the small and great , Whose character , yet undebauch'd , retains Two thirds of all the virtue that remains , Who wise ...
Page 418
... human nature's broadest , foulest blot , Chains him , and tasks him , and exacts his sweat With stripes , that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast . Then what is man ? And what man seeing this , And ...
... human nature's broadest , foulest blot , Chains him , and tasks him , and exacts his sweat With stripes , that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast . Then what is man ? And what man seeing this , And ...
Page 493
... human grandeur and the courts of kings . ' Twas transient in its nature , as in show ' Twas durable . As worthless as it seemed Intrinsically precious . To the foot Treach'rous and false , it smiled and it was cold . Great princes have ...
... human grandeur and the courts of kings . ' Twas transient in its nature , as in show ' Twas durable . As worthless as it seemed Intrinsically precious . To the foot Treach'rous and false , it smiled and it was cold . Great princes have ...
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