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 ThomsonJ. Grigg, 1832 - 537 páginas |
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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 : 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 . Then wherefore weep for England ? What ap- pears In England's case to move the ...
... 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 . Then wherefore weep for England ? What ap- pears In England's case to move the ...
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... Happy to fill Religion's vacant place With hollow form , and gesture , and grimace . Such , when the Teacher of his church was there , People and priest , the sons of Israel were ; Stiff in the letter , lax in the design And import of ...
... Happy to fill Religion's vacant place With hollow form , and gesture , and grimace . Such , when the Teacher of his church was there , People and priest , the sons of Israel were ; Stiff in the letter , lax in the design And import of ...
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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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Adieu Bagot beauty beneath blank verse Bodham charms cousin Cowper DEAR FRIEND dearest death deep delight divine E'en earth Eartham fair favour fear feel give glad glory grace Greece hand happy Hayley hear heard heart Heaven hills Homer honour hope Iliad JAMES THOMSON John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind labour LADY HESKETH least letter liberty live Lord March 11 mind morning muse nature never Newton night o'er occasion Olney once peace perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet praise present reason rose round scene seems shine smile song soon soul spirit stream suppose sure sweet taste tell thee thine thing Thomson thou thought Throckmorton tion toil translation truth verse Vincent Bourne virtue Weston WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wind winter wish write