The poetical works of William Cowper, with life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes by G. Gilfillan, Página 100,Volumen11854 |
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... youth . Cowper loved him warmly , and appreciated Burns ' Poems , although he said his light was hid in a dark - lantern - allud- ing to the Scottish dialect . It is pleasing to remember , that Burns reciprocated the feeling , and cried ...
... youth . Cowper loved him warmly , and appreciated Burns ' Poems , although he said his light was hid in a dark - lantern - allud- ing to the Scottish dialect . It is pleasing to remember , that Burns reciprocated the feeling , and cried ...
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... youth , manhood , and old age - a subject much more congenial to Cowper's mind , but which he never was permit- ted to finish , although some lines of an attempt towards it are extant . Perhaps no man can properly , or with good result ...
... youth , manhood , and old age - a subject much more congenial to Cowper's mind , but which he never was permit- ted to finish , although some lines of an attempt towards it are extant . Perhaps no man can properly , or with good result ...
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... youth he had probably dipped his shoe in the prevailing licentiousness of the London of that age . But subtracting all this , he was confessedly one of the best of mortal men , and might be said to have lived and died without an enemy ...
... youth he had probably dipped his shoe in the prevailing licentiousness of the London of that age . But subtracting all this , he was confessedly one of the best of mortal men , and might be said to have lived and died without an enemy ...
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... youth to ruminating age , Free in his will to choose or to refuse , Man may improve the crisis , or abuse : Else , on the fatalist's unrighteous plan , Say , to what bar amenable were man ? With nought in charge , he could betray no ...
... youth to ruminating age , Free in his will to choose or to refuse , Man may improve the crisis , or abuse : Else , on the fatalist's unrighteous plan , Say , to what bar amenable were man ? With nought in charge , he could betray no ...
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... youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves , but dangerous in the excess . Hark ! how it floats upon the dewy air ; - O what a dying , dying close was there ! ' Tis ...
... youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves , but dangerous in the excess . Hark ! how it floats upon the dewy air ; - O what a dying , dying close was there ! ' Tis ...
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Página 301 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to' enjoy With a propriety that...
Página 205 - Tust estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 40 Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Página 385 - 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 54 - Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant...
Página 205 - 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 310 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Página 306 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
Página 385 - Ye winds that have made me your sport. Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more : My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 174 - 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 260 - Made vocal for the amusement of the rest ; The sprightly lyre, whose treasure of sweet sounds The touch from many a trembling chord shakes out ; And the clear voice, symphonious, yet distinct, And in the charming strife triumphant still, Beguile the night, and set a keener edge On female industry : the threaded steel Flies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds.