The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson |
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... scorn to wear , The fleeting forms of majesty engage Respect , while stalking o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , was this the man ? I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon ...
... scorn to wear , The fleeting forms of majesty engage Respect , while stalking o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , was this the man ? I pity kings , whom Worship waits upon ...
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... scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . Is alwas happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away . He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ...
... scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . Is alwas happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away . He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ...
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... scorn , The strings are swept with a power , so loud , The storm of music shakes the astonished crowd . So , when remote futurity is brought Before the keen inquiry of her thought , A terrible sagacity informs 1 The poet's heart ; he ...
... scorn , The strings are swept with a power , so loud , The storm of music shakes the astonished crowd . So , when remote futurity is brought Before the keen inquiry of her thought , A terrible sagacity informs 1 The poet's heart ; he ...
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... Scorned by the nobler tenants of the flood , Minnows and gudgeons gorge th ' unwholsome food . The propagated myriads spread so fast , E'en Lewenhoeck himself would stand aghast , Employed to calculate th ' enormous sum , And own his ...
... Scorned by the nobler tenants of the flood , Minnows and gudgeons gorge th ' unwholsome food . The propagated myriads spread so fast , E'en Lewenhoeck himself would stand aghast , Employed to calculate th ' enormous sum , And own his ...
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... scorn , for its own sake , the gracious way . These are the sober , in whose cooler brains Some thought of immortality remains ; The rest , too busy or too gay to wait On the sad theme , their everlasting state , Sport for a day , and ...
... scorn , for its own sake , the gracious way . These are the sober , in whose cooler brains Some thought of immortality remains ; The rest , too busy or too gay to wait On the sad theme , their everlasting state , Sport for a day , and ...
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beauty beneath blank verse blessing boast Bodham cause charms COWPER dear cousin DEAR FRIEND death delight divine dream e'en earth eyes fair fancy favour fear feel flowers folly give glory grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven Homer honour hope Huntingdon Iliad John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL kind labour LADY HESKETH least less letter live Lord lyre mercy mind muse nature never numbers o'er occasion Olney once peace perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poor praise present prove received scene scorn Scripture seems shine sight skies smile song soon soul spirit suppose sure sweet taste tell thank thee theme thine thing thou thought Throckmorton tion truth Twas verse virtue Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wisdom wish wonder worth write