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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... virtue , and all prove That virtue has a title to your love . Have you no touch of pity , that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door . Or if yourself too scantily supplied Need help , let honest industry provide . Earn , if ...
... virtue , and all prove That virtue has a title to your love . Have you no touch of pity , that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door . Or if yourself too scantily supplied Need help , let honest industry provide . Earn , if ...
Page 72
... virtue , and some power to praise ; Can lift herself above corporeal things , And soaring on her own unborrow'd wings , Possess herself of all that's good or true , Assert the skies , and vindicate her due . Past indiscretion is a ...
... virtue , and some power to praise ; Can lift herself above corporeal things , And soaring on her own unborrow'd wings , Possess herself of all that's good or true , Assert the skies , and vindicate her due . Past indiscretion is a ...
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... Virtue ; mock the fools That trust them ; and in the end disclose a face That would have shoek'd Credulity herself , Unmask'd , vouchsafing this their sole excuse- Since all alike are selfish , why not they ? This does Profusion , and ...
... Virtue ; mock the fools That trust them ; and in the end disclose a face That would have shoek'd Credulity herself , Unmask'd , vouchsafing this their sole excuse- Since all alike are selfish , why not they ? This does Profusion , and ...
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