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Page 99
... my bitters too , Nature , enchanting nature , in whose form And lineaments
divine I trace a hand , That errs not , and find raptures still renewed , Is free to all
men - universal prize . Strange that so fair a creature should yet want Admirers
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... my bitters too , Nature , enchanting nature , in whose form And lineaments
divine I trace a hand , That errs not , and find raptures still renewed , Is free to all
men - universal prize . Strange that so fair a creature should yet want Admirers
BOOK ...
Page 152
... clans , and had begun to call These meadows and that range of hills his own ,
The tasted sweets of property begat Desire of more ; and industry in fome To
improve and cultivate their juft demesne , Made others covet what they saw so
fair .
... clans , and had begun to call These meadows and that range of hills his own ,
The tasted sweets of property begat Desire of more ; and industry in fome To
improve and cultivate their juft demesne , Made others covet what they saw so
fair .
Page 170
Consulted and obeyed , to guide his steps Directly to the FIRST AND ONLY FAIR
. Spare not in such a cause . Spend all the powers Of rant and rhapsody in virtue '
s praise : Be moft sublimely good , verbosely grand , And with poetic trappings ...
Consulted and obeyed , to guide his steps Directly to the FIRST AND ONLY FAIR
. Spare not in such a cause . Spend all the powers Of rant and rhapsody in virtue '
s praise : Be moft sublimely good , verbosely grand , And with poetic trappings ...
Page 175
Fair as it is , exifted ere it was . . Not for its own fake merely , but for his Much
more , who fashioned it , he gives it praise ; Praise that from earth resulting , as it
ought , To earth ' s acknowledged fovereign , finds at once Its only juft proprietor
in ...
Fair as it is , exifted ere it was . . Not for its own fake merely , but for his Much
more , who fashioned it , he gives it praise ; Praise that from earth resulting , as it
ought , To earth ' s acknowledged fovereign , finds at once Its only juft proprietor
in ...
Page 213
But when a poet , or when one like me , Happy to rove among poetic flowers ,
Though poor in skill to rear them , lights at laft On some fair theme , fome theme
divinely fair , Such is the impulse and the spur he feels To give it praise
proportioned ...
But when a poet , or when one like me , Happy to rove among poetic flowers ,
Though poor in skill to rear them , lights at laft On some fair theme , fome theme
divinely fair , Such is the impulse and the spur he feels To give it praise
proportioned ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & sons Limited, 1802 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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