Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...John Jones, 1790 - 298 стор. |
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... Thee , gentle + favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , Or elfe vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of providence ...
... Thee , gentle + favage ! whom no love of thee Or thine , but curiofity perhaps , Or elfe vain glory , prompted us to draw Forth from thy native bow'rs , to fhow thee here With what superior skill we can abuse The gifts of providence ...
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... thee weep , and thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country . Thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and though apt to err , Perhaps ...
... thee weep , and thine are honest tears , A patriot's for his country . Thou art sad At thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no power of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and though apt to err , Perhaps ...
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... thee , would not hold thee fast , Freedom ! whom they that lofe thee , fo regret , That ev'n a judgment making way for thee , Seems in their eyes , a mercy for thy fake . Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven ...
... thee , would not hold thee fast , Freedom ! whom they that lofe thee , fo regret , That ev'n a judgment making way for thee , Seems in their eyes , a mercy for thy fake . Such evil fin hath wrought ; and fuch a flame Kindled in heaven ...
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... thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life ! Refolving all events , with their effects And manifold refults , into the will And arbitration wife of the Supreme . Did Did not his eye rule all ...
... thee . Happy the man who fees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life ! Refolving all events , with their effects And manifold refults , into the will And arbitration wife of the Supreme . Did Did not his eye rule all ...
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... thee ftill My country ! and while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may found , be Shall be constrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year , most part , deform'd , I would not yet exchange thy ...
... thee ftill My country ! and while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may found , be Shall be constrain'd to love thee . Though thy clime Be fickle , and thy year , most part , deform'd , I would not yet exchange thy ...
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Сторінка 35 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Сторінка 205 - The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, For there is none to covet, all are full. The lion, and the libbard, and the bear Graze with the fearless flocks ; all bask at noon Together, or all gambol in the shade Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.
Сторінка 106 - 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 76 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Сторінка 206 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain for us ! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Сторінка 166 - 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.
Сторінка 12 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Сторінка 269 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Сторінка 261 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband 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.
Сторінка 207 - Thy rams are there, *Nebaioth, and the flocks of Kedar there ; The looms of Ormus, and the mines of Ind, And Saba's spicy groves, pay tribute there. Praise is in all her gates : upon her walls, And in her streets, and in her spacious courts, Is heard salvation. Eastern Java there Kneels with the native of the farthest west ; And Ethiopia spreads abroad the hand, And worships.