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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... thousand charms to show , B. The cause , tho ' worth the search , may yet That slaves , howe'er contented , never know . elude Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate ...
... thousand charms to show , B. The cause , tho ' worth the search , may yet That slaves , howe'er contented , never know . elude Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate ...
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... thousand lies . As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin that it feeds upon . So sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk , concealing its defects . Mortals , whose pleasures are their only care ...
... thousand lies . As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone , And hides the ruin that it feeds upon . So sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk , concealing its defects . Mortals , whose pleasures are their only care ...
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... thousand sages lost in endless wo , For ignorance of what they could not know ? That speech betrays at once a bigot's tongue , Charge not a God with such outrageous wrong . Truly not I - the partial light men have , My creed persuades ...
... thousand sages lost in endless wo , For ignorance of what they could not know ? That speech betrays at once a bigot's tongue , Charge not a God with such outrageous wrong . Truly not I - the partial light men have , My creed persuades ...
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... thousand charms , that only fools despise , Or pride can look at with indifferent eyes , All speak one language , all with one sweet voice Cry to her universal realm , Rejoice ! Man feels the spur of passions and desires , And she gives ...
... thousand charms , that only fools despise , Or pride can look at with indifferent eyes , All speak one language , all with one sweet voice Cry to her universal realm , Rejoice ! Man feels the spur of passions and desires , And she gives ...
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... thousand trades , For clumps , and lawns , and temples , and cascades , May now and then their velvet cushions take , And seem to pray for good example's sake ; Judging , in charity no doubt , the town Pious enough , and having need of ...
... thousand trades , For clumps , and lawns , and temples , and cascades , May now and then their velvet cushions take , And seem to pray for good example's sake ; Judging , in charity no doubt , the town Pious enough , and having need of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adieu affectionate amusement beauty believe blank verse Bodham charms Cowper dear cousin DEAR FRIEND dearest death delight divine dream e'en earth Eartham favour fear feel give glad grace hand happy HAYLEY hear heard heart Heaven Homer honour hope Iliad JAMES THOMSON John Gilpin JOHN JOHNSON JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind labour LADY HESKETH least less letter live Lord mind morning muse nature never NEWTON night o'er obliged occasion Olney once peace perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poor praise present prove reason received scene seems shine smile song soon soul spirit suppose sure sweet taste tell thank thee thine thing Thomson thou thought tion truth verse Vincent Bourne virtue Weston WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN winter wish worth write
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Página 135 - 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.
Página 78 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 127 - Away went hat and wig; He little dreamt when he set out, Of running such a rig. 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, Well done!
Página 128 - 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.
Página 123 - Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark; 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 — .
Página 153 - He loved them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again. Not long beneath the whelming brine, Expert to swim, he lay; Nor soon he felt his strength decline, Or courage die away ; But waged with Death a lasting strife, Supported by despair of life.
Página 126 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. "My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Página 134 - I learned at last submission to my lot ; But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more, Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapped In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet capped, Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own.
Página 52 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye Constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Página 66 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. To such I render more than mere respect, Whose actions say, that they respect themselves.