The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations, Том 6H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... eyes , And parrots with twin cherries in their beak . Now came the cane from India , smooth and bright With Nature's varnish ; sever'd into stripes 3 A painted vest Prince Vortiger had on , Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won ...
... eyes , And parrots with twin cherries in their beak . Now came the cane from India , smooth and bright With Nature's varnish ; sever'd into stripes 3 A painted vest Prince Vortiger had on , Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won ...
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... eye , And still unsated , dwelt upon the scene . Thence with what pleasure have we just discern'd The distant plough slow - moving , and beside 160 His labouring team , that swerved not from the track , The sturdy swain diminish'd to a ...
... eye , And still unsated , dwelt upon the scene . Thence with what pleasure have we just discern'd The distant plough slow - moving , and beside 160 His labouring team , that swerved not from the track , The sturdy swain diminish'd to a ...
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... eye beneath a wrinkled front The veteran shows , and gracing a grey beard With youthful smiles , descends towards the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , ease , when courted most , Farthest retires ...
... eye beneath a wrinkled front The veteran shows , and gracing a grey beard With youthful smiles , descends towards the grave Sprightly , and old almost without decay . Like a coy maiden , ease , when courted most , Farthest retires ...
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... eye , sweet Nature every sense The air salubrious of her lofty hills , The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales And music of her woods , - -no works of man May rival these ; these all bespeak a power Peculiar , and exclusively her own ...
... eye , sweet Nature every sense The air salubrious of her lofty hills , The cheering fragrance of her dewy vales And music of her woods , - -no works of man May rival these ; these all bespeak a power Peculiar , and exclusively her own ...
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... eyes Flash desperation , and betray their pangs For property stripp'd off by cruel chance ; From gaiety that fills ... eye , Delight us , happy to renounce a while 36 , Not senseless of its charms , what still we love , 35 And farewell ...
... eyes Flash desperation , and betray their pangs For property stripp'd off by cruel chance ; From gaiety that fills ... eye , Delight us , happy to renounce a while 36 , Not senseless of its charms , what still we love , 35 And farewell ...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems ..., Том 6 William Cowper Повний перегляд - 1836 |
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ADAM ANGEL art thou Avernus beasts beauty BEELZEBUB Behold beneath birds boast bosom breath BRIDGEWATER TREATISES bright call'd charms CHERUBIM creature dear death delight DEMOSTHENES divine dost thou dread dream earth Edition Engravings on Steel eternal eyes fair fame fear feel fire FLESH flowers form'd fruit glory GOD THE FATHER gold grace hand happy heard heart heaven hell honour human labour light live Lord lost LUCIFER mighty mind nature never o'er once P. L. SIMMONDS pain peace pleasure Portrait praise proud ROBERT SOUTHEY SATAN Satire vi scene seat seem'd SERPENT shine sigh sight skies smile song soon soul spirit STANDARD LIBRARY stars stream sweet taste tears thee thine things thou art thou hast toil translated truth Twas virtue voice Vols WILLIAM COWPER wind wings wisdom wonder Wood Wood Engravings Woodcuts worth
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Сторінка 178 - 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 £11 the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Сторінка 183 - 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!
Сторінка 73 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Сторінка 134 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Сторінка 66 - 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.
Сторінка 41 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Сторінка 186 - And galloped off with all his might As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig ; He lost them sooner than at first, For why ? they were too big. Now...
Сторінка 184 - But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why ? his owner had a house Full ten miles off at Ware.
Сторінка 182 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might.