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... feel confident that no one will have the presumption to call that in question . Cowper was the descendant of an ancient and honourable family which resided in Sussex about the middle of the seventeenth century , when Wil- liam Cowper ...
... feel confident that no one will have the presumption to call that in question . Cowper was the descendant of an ancient and honourable family which resided in Sussex about the middle of the seventeenth century , when Wil- liam Cowper ...
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... feeling which subsisted between our author and this family appears to have been the happiest period of his life . After a short time of friendly and social meet- ings , Cowper felt a desire to take up his abode with this family , and he ...
... feeling which subsisted between our author and this family appears to have been the happiest period of his life . After a short time of friendly and social meet- ings , Cowper felt a desire to take up his abode with this family , and he ...
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... feeling the assurance that he had been , from all eternity , destined for a place among the saints of the Most High . These delu- sions of predestination appear to have bound him , in each case , as with an iron spell . In the autumn of ...
... feeling the assurance that he had been , from all eternity , destined for a place among the saints of the Most High . These delu- sions of predestination appear to have bound him , in each case , as with an iron spell . In the autumn of ...
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... feels ; Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief monster that has plagu'd the nations yet . The globe and sceptre in such hands misplac'd , Those ensigns of dominion , how disgrac❜d ! The glass , that bids man mark the ...
... feels ; Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief monster that has plagu'd the nations yet . The globe and sceptre in such hands misplac'd , Those ensigns of dominion , how disgrac❜d ! The glass , that bids man mark the ...
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... feels , Hook disappointment on the public wheels ; With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Most confident , when palpably most wrong ; If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the ...
... feels , Hook disappointment on the public wheels ; With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Most confident , when palpably most wrong ; If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the ...
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Ęsop beauty beneath bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms delight design'd divine docet dread dream earth ease eyes fair fancy fear feel flowers flowers of Eden folly form'd frown fruit give glory grace grave groves hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope human John Gilpin labour land learn'd light live lost lyre mankind mercy mind mounted best muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never night nymphs o'er once palęstra peace perhaps pity pleas'd pleasure poet poet's praise pride proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound spleen stamp'd stream sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thou art thought toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas vex'd VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wisely store worth youth
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Page 420 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, - My Mary ! But well thou play'dst the housewife's part; And all thy threads with magic art, Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary...
Page 373 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents pass'd into the skies.
Page 254 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 254 - And, intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me. No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...
Page 324 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Page 367 - WHEN the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the Roman rods, Sought, with an indignant mien, Counsel of her country's gods ; Sage beneath the spreading oak Sat the Druid, hoary chief; Every burning word he spoke Full of rage, and full of grief.
Page 304 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 319 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came : for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more.
Page 251 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, Eternal Word ! From thee departing, they are lost and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace.
Page 258 - Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.