The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volumen1J. Nichol, 1854 |
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... Winks hard , and talks of darkness at noonday . A critic on the sacred book should be Candid and learn'd , dispassionate and free ; 421 430 440 450 Free from the wayward bias bigots feel , From fancy's 38 THE PROGRESS OF ERROR .
... Winks hard , and talks of darkness at noonday . A critic on the sacred book should be Candid and learn'd , dispassionate and free ; 421 430 440 450 Free from the wayward bias bigots feel , From fancy's 38 THE PROGRESS OF ERROR .
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... learn'd before , Had shed immortal glories on your brow , That all your virtues cannot purchase now . All joy to the believer ! He can speak— Trembling yet happy , confident yet meek.- " Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot ...
... learn'd before , Had shed immortal glories on your brow , That all your virtues cannot purchase now . All joy to the believer ! He can speak— Trembling yet happy , confident yet meek.- " Since the dear hour that brought me to thy foot ...
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... , awhile They stood the test of her ensnaring smile , And had the grace in scenes of peace to show The virtue they had learn'd in scenes of woe . 47 60 70 80 But man is frail , and can but ill sustain 64 EXPOSTULATION .
... , awhile They stood the test of her ensnaring smile , And had the grace in scenes of peace to show The virtue they had learn'd in scenes of woe . 47 60 70 80 But man is frail , and can but ill sustain 64 EXPOSTULATION .
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... gem Of his just praise , to lavish it on them ? Hast thou not learn'd , what thou art often told , A truth still sacred , and believed of old , 350 That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest , 72 EXPOSTULATION .
... gem Of his just praise , to lavish it on them ? Hast thou not learn'd , what thou art often told , A truth still sacred , and believed of old , 350 That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest , 72 EXPOSTULATION .
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... learn'd to steal no more . Well spake the prophet , Let the desert sing ; Where sprang the thorn , the spiry fir shall spring , And where unsightly and rank thistles grew , Shall grow the myrtle and luxuriant yew . Go now , and with ...
... learn'd to steal no more . Well spake the prophet , Let the desert sing ; Where sprang the thorn , the spiry fir shall spring , And where unsightly and rank thistles grew , Shall grow the myrtle and luxuriant yew . Go now , and with ...
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beauty beneath bids blest boast breath call'd cause charms Cowper dark delight design'd distant divine dread dream earth ease Edmonton eyes fair fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly form'd frown fruit Gilpin give glory grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope human Huntingtown John Gilpin John Newton labour land learn'd light live lost lyre mankind mercy mind Muse Nature Nebaioth never o'er Olney Hymns once peace perhaps Pharisee pine-apples pity pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove rude sacred scene scorn seem'd shine sighs sight silent skies smile song soon soul sound stamp'd stand stream street's end sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thought toil tongue trembling trifler true truth Twas verse virtue Warren Hastings waste Westminster School WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth
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Página 208 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Página 389 - 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. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Página 399 - So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, ' As much as I your minstrelsy, ' You would abhor to do me wrong, ' As much as I to spoil your song ; ' For 'twas the self-same Power divine, ' Taught you to sing, and me to shine ; ' That you with music, I with light, ' Might beautify and cheer the night.
Página 209 - 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.
Página 388 - 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. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 178 - Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark ; But such as learning, without false pretence, The friend of truth, the associate of sound sense.
Página 209 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Página 189 - Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted.
Página 209 - Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Página 352 - Though mangled, hack'd and hew'd, not yet destroy'd, The little ones unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot, As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw...