The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of ThomsonLippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851 - 537 pages |
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... reason , those and all other undertakings finally reflections in this poem are also exceedingly im- gave way to a relapse of his malady . His disor- pressive , and its delineation of character abounds der extended , with little ...
... reason , those and all other undertakings finally reflections in this poem are also exceedingly im- gave way to a relapse of his malady . His disor- pressive , and its delineation of character abounds der extended , with little ...
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... reason on the self - same plan : Maintaining yours , you cannot theirs condemn , Who think , or seem to think , man made for them , B. Seldom , alas ! the power of logic reigns With much sufficiency in royal brains ; Such reasoning ...
... reason on the self - same plan : Maintaining yours , you cannot theirs condemn , Who think , or seem to think , man made for them , B. Seldom , alas ! the power of logic reigns With much sufficiency in royal brains ; Such reasoning ...
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... Reason can not reach : Then God's own image on the soul impressed , Becomes a mock'ry , and a standing jest ; And faith , the root whence only can arise The graces of a life that wins the skies , Loses at once all value and esteem ...
... Reason can not reach : Then God's own image on the soul impressed , Becomes a mock'ry , and a standing jest ; And faith , the root whence only can arise The graces of a life that wins the skies , Loses at once all value and esteem ...
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... reason , yet by nature blind , Let supposition lend her aid once more , And land some grave optician on the shore : He claps his lens , if haply they may see , Close to the part where vision ought to be ; But finds , that , though his ...
... reason , yet by nature blind , Let supposition lend her aid once more , And land some grave optician on the shore : He claps his lens , if haply they may see , Close to the part where vision ought to be ; But finds , that , though his ...
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... reason's verdict is a madman's deed . Am I to set my life upon a throw , Because a bear is rude and surly ? No- A moral , sensible and well - bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can . Were I empowered to regulate the lists ...
... reason's verdict is a madman's deed . Am I to set my life upon a throw , Because a bear is rude and surly ? No- A moral , sensible and well - bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can . Were I empowered to regulate the lists ...
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Æsop Beau marked beauty beneath better blessing boast cause charms Christian COWPER dear cousin DEAR FRIEND death delight divine dream e'en earth ease eyes fair faith fancy favour fear feel flowers folly give glory grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven honour hope hour human Huntingdon John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL labour LADY least less live Lord lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never numbers nymph o'er Olney once pain peace perhaps pleased pleasure poet poor praise prove reason rest scene scorn Scripture seems shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound sure sweet taste thee theme thine thing thou thought toil true truth Twas verse Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wind wisdom wish wonder worth youth
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Page 61 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 123 - Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul!) Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brushed and neat, He manfully did throw.
Page 130 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 90 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Page 150 - But ah ! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary ! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary ! W.
Page 94 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 87 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 110 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more.
Page 44 - Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.
Page 131 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.