Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 517
... thought , And swallowing therefore without pause or choice The total grist unsifted , husks and all . But trees , and rivulets whose rapid course Defies the check of winter , haunts of deer , And sheep - walks populous with bleating ...
... thought , And swallowing therefore without pause or choice The total grist unsifted , husks and all . But trees , and rivulets whose rapid course Defies the check of winter , haunts of deer , And sheep - walks populous with bleating ...
Page 629
... thoughts that pesters you without ceasing , but then you always have a serious thought standing at the door of your imagination , like a justice of peace with the Riot Act in his hand , ready to read it , and disperse the mob . Here ...
... thoughts that pesters you without ceasing , but then you always have a serious thought standing at the door of your imagination , like a justice of peace with the Riot Act in his hand , ready to read it , and disperse the mob . Here ...
Page 987
... thought to do , and they have made me sick of the very name of liberty , which I never thought to be . Oh , how I detest them ! coxcombs as they are on this occasion as they ever are on all . Apes of the Spartan and the Roman character ...
... thought to do , and they have made me sick of the very name of liberty , which I never thought to be . Oh , how I detest them ! coxcombs as they are on this occasion as they ever are on all . Apes of the Spartan and the Roman character ...
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