The Complete Poetical Works of William CowperOxford University Press, 1913 - 672 pages |
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... soon Our sabbaths , clos'd with mumm'ry and buffoon . Preaching and pranks will share the motley scene : Our's parcell'd out , as thine have ever been , God's worship and the mountebank between . What says the prophet ? Let that day be ...
... soon Our sabbaths , clos'd with mumm'ry and buffoon . Preaching and pranks will share the motley scene : Our's parcell'd out , as thine have ever been , God's worship and the mountebank between . What says the prophet ? Let that day be ...
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... soon op'ning In rushes folly with a full - moon tide . Then welcome errors , of whatever size , To justify it by a thousand lies . [ wide , As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin that it feeds upon ; So sophistry ...
... soon op'ning In rushes folly with a full - moon tide . Then welcome errors , of whatever size , To justify it by a thousand lies . [ wide , As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin that it feeds upon ; So sophistry ...
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... soon fill the creeks around , 480 Pois'ning the waters where their swarms abound . Scorn'd by the nobler tenants of the flood , Minnows and gudgeons gorge th ' unwholesome food . The propagated myriads spread so fast , E'en Leuwenhoeck ...
... soon fill the creeks around , 480 Pois'ning the waters where their swarms abound . Scorn'd by the nobler tenants of the flood , Minnows and gudgeons gorge th ' unwholesome food . The propagated myriads spread so fast , E'en Leuwenhoeck ...
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... soon assum'd ; but , when we strive To strip them off , ' tis being flay'd alive . Call'd to the temple of impure delight , He that abstains , and he alone , does right . If a wish wander that way , call it home ; He cannot long be safe ...
... soon assum'd ; but , when we strive To strip them off , ' tis being flay'd alive . Call'd to the temple of impure delight , He that abstains , and he alone , does right . If a wish wander that way , call it home ; He cannot long be safe ...
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... soon would abdicate his own , As stoop from heav'n to sell the proud a throne . His dwelling a recess in some rude rock ; Book , beads , and maple - dish , his meagre stock ; 80 In shirt of hair and weeds of canvass dress'd , Girt with ...
... soon would abdicate his own , As stoop from heav'n to sell the proud a throne . His dwelling a recess in some rude rock ; Book , beads , and maple - dish , his meagre stock ; 80 In shirt of hair and weeds of canvass dress'd , Girt with ...
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