The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations, Том 6H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... , The sons of Italy were surely blest.- But small the bliss that sense alone bestows , And sensual bliss is all the nation knows . Goldsmith . Traveller . Cheer all their seasons with a grateful smile , Can B. I. THE TASK . 21 17.
... , The sons of Italy were surely blest.- But small the bliss that sense alone bestows , And sensual bliss is all the nation knows . Goldsmith . Traveller . Cheer all their seasons with a grateful smile , Can B. I. THE TASK . 21 17.
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... smile , Can boast but little virtue ; and inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners , victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
... smile , Can boast but little virtue ; and inert Through plenty , lose in morals what they gain In manners , victims of luxurious ease . These therefore I can pity , placed remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or ...
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... smile , Though at their own destruction . She that asks Her dear five hundred friends , contemns them all , And hates their coming . They , what can they less ? Make just reprisals , and with cringe and shrug And bow obsequious , hide ...
... smile , Though at their own destruction . She that asks Her dear five hundred friends , contemns them all , And hates their coming . They , what can they less ? Make just reprisals , and with cringe and shrug And bow obsequious , hide ...
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... smile Play'd on his lips , and in his speech was heard Paternal sweetness , dignity , and love27 . The occupation dearest to his heart 27 In every gesture dignity and love . Par . Lost , viii . 489 . 675 680 685 690 695 700 705 Was to ...
... smile Play'd on his lips , and in his speech was heard Paternal sweetness , dignity , and love27 . The occupation dearest to his heart 27 In every gesture dignity and love . Par . Lost , viii . 489 . 675 680 685 690 695 700 705 Was to ...
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... smile to hear the distant tempest roar ; There bless'd with health , with business unperplex'd , This life we relish , and ensure the next . Young . Satire v . 295 300 305 310 315 320 16 They triumph over the unsuspecting fish , whom ...
... smile to hear the distant tempest roar ; There bless'd with health , with business unperplex'd , This life we relish , and ensure the next . Young . Satire v . 295 300 305 310 315 320 16 They triumph over the unsuspecting fish , whom ...
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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.