Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 339
... mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd . The vet'ran steed excused his task at length , In kind compassion of his failing strength , And turn'd into the park or mead to graze , Exempt from future service all his days , There feels a ...
... mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd . The vet'ran steed excused his task at length , In kind compassion of his failing strength , And turn'd into the park or mead to graze , Exempt from future service all his days , There feels a ...
Page 426
... mind resorts , in chace of terms Though apt , yet coy , and difficult to win- T ' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind , and hold them fast , And force them sit , ' till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of ...
... mind resorts , in chace of terms Though apt , yet coy , and difficult to win- T ' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind , and hold them fast , And force them sit , ' till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of ...
Page 806
... mind be informed , it is no matter whether that mind belongs to a man or a woman : the taste and the judgement will receive the benefit alike in both . Long before The Task was published , I made an experiment one day , being in a ...
... mind be informed , it is no matter whether that mind belongs to a man or a woman : the taste and the judgement will receive the benefit alike in both . Long before The Task was published , I made an experiment one day , being in a ...
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