The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence.", Volume 7Saunders and Otley, 1835 |
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... poor , and the despised of all , Seek and obtain , and often find unsought ? Tell me and I will tell thee what is truth . O friendly to the best pursuits of man , Friendly to thought , to virtue , and to peace 12 B. III . THE TASK .
... poor , and the despised of all , Seek and obtain , and often find unsought ? Tell me and I will tell thee what is truth . O friendly to the best pursuits of man , Friendly to thought , to virtue , and to peace 12 B. III . THE TASK .
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... thought , to virtue , and to peace , Domestic life in rural pleasure pass'd ! Few know thy value , and few taste thy sweets ; Though many boast thy favours , and affect To understand and choose thee for their own . But foolish man ...
... thought , to virtue , and to peace , Domestic life in rural pleasure pass'd ! Few know thy value , and few taste thy sweets ; Though many boast thy favours , and affect To understand and choose thee for their own . But foolish man ...
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... thought , For all the savage din of the swift pack , And clamours of the field ? -Detested sport , That owes its pleasures to another's pain ; That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless nature , dumb , but yet endued With ...
... thought , For all the savage din of the swift pack , And clamours of the field ? -Detested sport , That owes its pleasures to another's pain ; That feeds upon the sobs and dying shrieks Of harmless nature , dumb , but yet endued With ...
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... thought , the creature of a polish'd mind . Without it all is gothic as the scene To which the insipid citizen resorts Near yonder heath ; where Industry mispent , But proud of his uncouth ill chosen task , Has made a heaven on earth ...
... thought , the creature of a polish'd mind . Without it all is gothic as the scene To which the insipid citizen resorts Near yonder heath ; where Industry mispent , But proud of his uncouth ill chosen task , Has made a heaven on earth ...
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... thoughts , However trivial all that he conceives . Sweet bashfulness ! it claims at least this praise ; The dearth of information and good sense , That it foretells us , always comes to pass . Cataracts of declamation thunder here ...
... thoughts , However trivial all that he conceives . Sweet bashfulness ! it claims at least this praise ; The dearth of information and good sense , That it foretells us , always comes to pass . Cataracts of declamation thunder here ...
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Page 38 - 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 th
Page 226 - as loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin, who but he! his fame soon spread around; "He carries weight! He rides a race! "Tis for a thousand pound!
Page 249 - Bleeding from the Roman rods, Sought, with an indignant mien, Counsel of her country's gods ; Sage...
Page 351 - Though duly from my hand he took His pittance every night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw ; Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his maw. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins' russet peel, And, when his juicy salads fail'd, Sliced carrot pleased him well.
Page 184 - Then shifting his side, as a lawyer knows how, He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes, But what were his arguments few people know, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed, with a grave solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or but, — That whenever the Nose put his spectacles on, By daylight or candlelight — Eyes should be shut.
Page 225 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, at last it flew away. Then might all people well discern the bottles he had slung; A bottle swinging at each side, as hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, up flew the windows all, And every soul cried out,
Page 223 - Where they did all get in ; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin.
Page 180 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 66 - The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge ; and the bents And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half-petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness.
Page 99 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave. Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.