My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. Poems - Page 70by William Cowper - 1819Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, 4 Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. And thus gives virtue indirect applause ; But she has burnt her mask not needed here, 105 Where vice has such allowance, that her shifts And specious semblances have lost their use. I was... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...hatred ever wrong'd her yet) May claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimies with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause...the herd Long since. With many an arrow deep infix'd My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1838 - 272 pages
...like the mantle of night over his broken spirit. For he has said of himself, with graphic power, " I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since ; with many an arrow deep infixed My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades." 6*... | |
| Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...feelings at this time are thus beautifully expressed in hu favourite poem, — " The Task :" — " I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since ; with many an arrow, deep inlixt , My panting side was charged ; when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.... | |
| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...still, that she admits The worth of what she mimies with such care, And thus gives virtue indireet applause ; But she has burnt her mask not needed here,...Where vice has such allowance, that her shifts And speeious semblances have lost their use. I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since ; with... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1839 - 636 pages
...the balm of Gilead ? How beautifully is this process described by the tender and classical Cowper ! " I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since: with many an arrow deep infix'd My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1839 - 616 pages
...the balm of Gilead ? How beautifully is this process described by the tender and classical Cowper ! " I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since : with many an arrow deep infix'd My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was... | |
| Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...to all gentle hearts to listen to his pensive and yet no way dispiriting account of his position : " I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since. With many an arrow deep tnlis'd My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1841 - 358 pages
...ever wrong'd her yet), May claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause...shifts And specious semblances have lost their use. To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by One who had himself Been hurt by the... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...ever wrong 'd her yet, May claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimicks, with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause ; But she has burnt her mask, not needed here, 105 Where vice has such allowance, that her shifts And specious semblances have lost their use. I was... | |
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