The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the AuthorD. Appleton, 1856 - English poetry |
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Page 285
... Fall of snow in the evening . The waggoner . - A poor family - piece . - The rural thief . - Public houses . - The multitude of them censured . - The farmer's daughter : what she was - what she is . - The simpli- city of country manners ...
... Fall of snow in the evening . The waggoner . - A poor family - piece . - The rural thief . - Public houses . - The multitude of them censured . - The farmer's daughter : what she was - what she is . - The simpli- city of country manners ...
Page 304
... fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill . To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon , a heart To feel , and courage to redress , her wrongs : To monarchs dignity ; to judges sense ; To artists ...
... fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill . To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon , a heart To feel , and courage to redress , her wrongs : To monarchs dignity ; to judges sense ; To artists ...
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... Fall with his throne , and Pallas , holding forth The terrors of the Gorgon shield in vain , Shall rush to the abyss , like Vulcan hurl'd Down into Lemnos , through the gate of heaven . Thou also , with precipitated wheels , Phoebus ...
... Fall with his throne , and Pallas , holding forth The terrors of the Gorgon shield in vain , Shall rush to the abyss , like Vulcan hurl'd Down into Lemnos , through the gate of heaven . Thou also , with precipitated wheels , Phoebus ...
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