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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... happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away . He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And , feasting on an onion and a crust , We never feel th ' alacrity and joy With which he shouts and carols Vive la Roi ...
... happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away . He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And , feasting on an onion and a crust , We never feel th ' alacrity and joy With which he shouts and carols Vive la Roi ...
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... happy skill and industry combined Shall prove ( what argument could never yet ) The Bible an imposture and a cheat ? The praises of the libertine professed , The worst of men , and curses of the best . Where should the living , weeping ...
... happy skill and industry combined Shall prove ( what argument could never yet ) The Bible an imposture and a cheat ? The praises of the libertine professed , The worst of men , and curses of the best . Where should the living , weeping ...
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... happy , confident yet meek . Since the dear hour , that brought me to thy foot And cut up all my follies by the root , I never trusted in an arm but thine , Nor hoped , but in thy righteousness divine : My prayers and alms , imperfect ...
... happy , confident yet meek . Since the dear hour , that brought me to thy foot And cut up all my follies by the root , I never trusted in an arm but thine , Nor hoped , but in thy righteousness divine : My prayers and alms , imperfect ...
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... happy : let the Muse look round From East to West , no sorrow can be found ; Or only what , in cottages confined , Sighs unregarded to the passing wind . To modest checks , and borrowed one from art ; Were just such trifles , without ...
... happy : let the Muse look round From East to West , no sorrow can be found ; Or only what , in cottages confined , Sighs unregarded to the passing wind . To modest checks , and borrowed one from art ; Were just such trifles , without ...
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... Happy the man there seeking and there found , Happy the nation where such men abound . How shall a verse impress thee ? by what name Shall I adjure thee not to court thy shame ? By theirs , whose bright example unimpeached , Directs ...
... Happy the man there seeking and there found , Happy the nation where such men abound . How shall a verse impress thee ? by what name Shall I adjure thee not to court thy shame ? By theirs , whose bright example unimpeached , Directs ...
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beauty beneath blank verse blessing boast cause charms Christian COWPER dear cousin DEAR FRIEND delight divine dream e'en earth eyes fair fancy favour fear feel flowers folly give glory grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven honour hope hour Huntingdon Iliad John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL labour lady least less letter live Lord lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never NEWTON night numbers nymph o'er occasion Olney once pain palæstra Parnassian peace perhaps pleased pleasure poet poor praise pride prove scene scorn Scripture seems shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound suppose sure sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine things thou thought toil truth Twas verse Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM BULL WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM UNWIN wisdom wish wonder worth write
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Page 64 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, ** Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, ** And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in...
Page 98 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us ! ' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 133 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine : And, while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Page 112 - O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
Page 76 - tis the twanging horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...
Page 49 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 77 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat. To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 126 - Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine. Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear, For while he spake a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear. Whereat his horse did snort as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might As he had done before.
Page 76 - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.) Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...
Page 126 - And all the world would stare If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware." So turning to his horse, he said "I am in haste to dine: Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine.