Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 211
... pleasures to the feeling heart . No pleasure ? Has some sickly eastern waste Sent us a wind to parch us at a blast ? Can British paradise no scenes afford To please her sated and indiff'rent lord ? Are sweet philosophy's enjoyments run ...
... pleasures to the feeling heart . No pleasure ? Has some sickly eastern waste Sent us a wind to parch us at a blast ? Can British paradise no scenes afford To please her sated and indiff'rent lord ? Are sweet philosophy's enjoyments run ...
Page 255
... pleasure , wealth and ease . ' Tis thus , extending his tempestuous arm , Thy Maker fills the nations with alarm , While his own Heav'n surveys the troubled scene , And feels no change , unshaken and serene . Freedom , in other lands ...
... pleasure , wealth and ease . ' Tis thus , extending his tempestuous arm , Thy Maker fills the nations with alarm , While his own Heav'n surveys the troubled scene , And feels no change , unshaken and serene . Freedom , in other lands ...
Page 761
... pleasure accepts the box which you have sent , -I should say with the greatest pleasure . And I , discarding the leathern trunk that I have used so long , shall succeed to the possession of hers . She says , Tell Lady Hesketh that I ...
... pleasure accepts the box which you have sent , -I should say with the greatest pleasure . And I , discarding the leathern trunk that I have used so long , shall succeed to the possession of hers . She says , Tell Lady Hesketh that I ...
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