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... perhaps , a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's ...
... perhaps , a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year . Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's ...
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... the sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes 18 TABLE TALK .
... the sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes 18 TABLE TALK .
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William Cowper. Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ; Or , having whelp'd a prologue with great pains , Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdash'd with many a ...
William Cowper. Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ; Or , having whelp'd a prologue with great pains , Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdash'd with many a ...
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... Perhaps some courser , who disdains the road , Snuffs up the wind and flings himself abroad . Contemporaries all surpass'd , see one ; Short his career , indeed , but ably run ; Churchill , himself unconscious of his powers , In penury ...
... Perhaps some courser , who disdains the road , Snuffs up the wind and flings himself abroad . Contemporaries all surpass'd , see one ; Short his career , indeed , but ably run ; Churchill , himself unconscious of his powers , In penury ...
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... perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep of every flock Resort to this example as a rock ; There stand , and justify the foul abuse Of sabbath hours with plausible excuse ; If apostolic gravity be free , To play the fool on ...
... perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep of every flock Resort to this example as a rock ; There stand , and justify the foul abuse Of sabbath hours with plausible excuse ; If apostolic gravity be free , To play the fool on ...
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beams beneath bids bless'd bliss blooming groves boast BODHAM breast call'd charms Cheapside CHISWICK courser dark dear deeds delight design'd divine dream e'en earth Edmonton errours eyes fair Fancy fear feel fire flowers folly fool form'd frown GEORGE ROMNEY Gilpin give glory God's grace hand happy hast hate heart Heaven heavenly hope hour JOHN GILPIN labour land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mind muse Nature never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps Pharisee pleasure poet poet's praise pride proud prove Rome rude sacred scene scorn scorn'd Scripture seem'd shine sight sithe skies smile song SONNET sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste tears telescopic eye tempest thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler true truth Twas verse VIRG virtue waste Whate'er wild WILLIAM COWPER wintry wisdom zeal