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 Author, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1856 |
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... sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the ... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him , who rears a poem lank and long , To him ...
... sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the ... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him , who rears a poem lank and long , To him ...
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... sounds , though sweet and well combined , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave Vice and Folly unsubdued behind . Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod ...
... sounds , though sweet and well combined , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave Vice and Folly unsubdued behind . Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod ...
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... sounds - Your Reverence , or Your No. But his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last What atheists call him - a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave . Oh , laugh or mourn ...
... sounds - Your Reverence , or Your No. But his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last What atheists call him - a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave . Oh , laugh or mourn ...
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... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all ; Kings are invited , and , would kings obey , No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless ...
... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all ; Kings are invited , and , would kings obey , No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless ...
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... sounds prophetic are too rough to suit Ears long accustom'd to the pleasing lute ; They scorn'd his inspiration and his theme , Pronounced him frantic , and his fears a dream ; With self - indulgence wing'd the fleeting hours , Till the ...
... sounds prophetic are too rough to suit Ears long accustom'd to the pleasing lute ; They scorn'd his inspiration and his theme , Pronounced him frantic , and his fears a dream ; With self - indulgence wing'd the fleeting hours , Till the ...
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