Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry, and a Sketch of His Life by John Johnson, Том 2E. Littlefield, 1841 |
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... learn'd : And under such preceptors who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetick pains , Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , Th ' expedients and inventions multiform , To which the mind resorts , in chase of terms , Though ...
... learn'd : And under such preceptors who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetick pains , Which only poets know . The shifts and turns , Th ' expedients and inventions multiform , To which the mind resorts , in chase of terms , Though ...
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... learn'd with labour , and though much admir'd By curious eyes and judgments ill - inform'd , 435 To me is odious as the nasal twang Heard at conventicle where worthy men , Misled by custom , strain celestial themes Through the press'd ...
... learn'd with labour , and though much admir'd By curious eyes and judgments ill - inform'd , 435 To me is odious as the nasal twang Heard at conventicle where worthy men , Misled by custom , strain celestial themes Through the press'd ...
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... learn'd , If aught was learn'd in childhood , is forgot : And such expense , as pinches parents blue , And mortifies the lib'ral hand of love , Is squander'd in pursuit of idle sports And vicious pleasures ; buys the boy a name That ...
... learn'd , If aught was learn'd in childhood , is forgot : And such expense , as pinches parents blue , And mortifies the lib'ral hand of love , Is squander'd in pursuit of idle sports And vicious pleasures ; buys the boy a name That ...
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... learn'd , If this be learning , most of all deceiv'd . 175 180 Great crimes alarm the conscience , but it sleeps , 185 While thoughtful man is plausibly amused . Defend me , therefore , common sense , say I , From reveries so airy ...
... learn'd , If this be learning , most of all deceiv'd . 175 180 Great crimes alarm the conscience , but it sleeps , 185 While thoughtful man is plausibly amused . Defend me , therefore , common sense , say I , From reveries so airy ...
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... learn'd and wise Sarcastick would exclaim , and judge the song Cold as its theme , and like its theme the fruit Of too much labour , worthless when produc'd . Who loves a garden loves a green - house too Unconscious of a less propitious ...
... learn'd and wise Sarcastick would exclaim , and judge the song Cold as its theme , and like its theme the fruit Of too much labour , worthless when produc'd . Who loves a garden loves a green - house too Unconscious of a less propitious ...
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beauty beneath boast breath call'd cause charms death delight design'd dicebox distant divine domestick dread dream e'en earth ease ev'ning ev'ry fair fame fancy fear feed feel fieldfare flow'r folly form'd fruit give glory grace grave Guelder Rose hand happy hast heard heart Heav'n honour human John Throckmorton JOSEPH HILL king labour learn'd less liberty liv'd live lost lov'd lyre magick man-The mind mounted best musick Nature Nature's Nebaioth never o'er once peace perhaps pleas'd pleasures plebeian pow'r praise proud prove publick rest sacred scene schools seek seem'd sensual World shine skies sleep smile song soon soul sound Stamp'd sweet sweet oblivion task taste thee theme thine thou art thought toil trembling truth Twas vex'd virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wisely store worth youth
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Сторінка 30 - 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 earned.
Сторінка 30 - 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 77 - 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 183 - Shoots into port at some well-havened isle, Where spices breathe and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, So thou, with sails how swift, hast reached the shore 'Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,' And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Сторінка 125 - The night was winter in his roughest mood; The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Сторінка 129 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Сторінка 12 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind; Unnumber'd branches waving in the blast, And all their leaves fast flutt'ring, all at once.
Сторінка 144 - 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 29 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Сторінка 125 - The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half suppress'd ; Pleas'd with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence.