Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 491
... wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which fancy seeks in vain The likeness of some object seen before . Thus nature works as if to mock at art , And in defiance of her rival pow'rs ; By these fortuitous and random strokes ...
... wonder takes a thousand shapes Capricious , in which fancy seeks in vain The likeness of some object seen before . Thus nature works as if to mock at art , And in defiance of her rival pow'rs ; By these fortuitous and random strokes ...
Page 826
... wonder to find ourselves made the subjects of false accusation in a place ever fruitful in such productions , we do and must wonder little , that he should listen to them with so much credulity . I say this , because if he had heard ...
... wonder to find ourselves made the subjects of false accusation in a place ever fruitful in such productions , we do and must wonder little , that he should listen to them with so much credulity . I say this , because if he had heard ...
Page 951
... wonder , I doubt not , at being told that she is still so feeble as to be insufficient for these purposes . You will wonder when I inform you that she walked yesterday , at two journeys , twenty times the length of the orchard - gravel ...
... wonder , I doubt not , at being told that she is still so feeble as to be insufficient for these purposes . You will wonder when I inform you that she walked yesterday , at two journeys , twenty times the length of the orchard - gravel ...
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