Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1800 - English poetry |
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... plain ? No. His high mettle , under good controul , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal . Let discipline employ her wholesome arts ; Let magistrates alert perform their parts , Not skulk or put on a prudential mask , As ...
... plain ? No. His high mettle , under good controul , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal . Let discipline employ her wholesome arts ; Let magistrates alert perform their parts , Not skulk or put on a prudential mask , As ...
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... plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighb'ring lairs ; Save that his scent is less acute than their's , For persevering chase , and headlong leaps , True beagle as the staunchest hound he keeps . Charg'd with the folly of his life's ...
... plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighb'ring lairs ; Save that his scent is less acute than their's , For persevering chase , and headlong leaps , True beagle as the staunchest hound he keeps . Charg'd with the folly of his life's ...
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... guest , Sits banqueting , and God provides the feast . But triflers are engag'd and cannot come ; Their answer to the call is - Not at home . Oh the dear pleasures of the velvet plain , The I. E THE PROGRESS OF ERROR . 49.
... guest , Sits banqueting , and God provides the feast . But triflers are engag'd and cannot come ; Their answer to the call is - Not at home . Oh the dear pleasures of the velvet plain , The I. E THE PROGRESS OF ERROR . 49.
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... plain , The painted tablets , dealt and dealt again . Cards , with what rapture , and the polish'd die , The yawning chasm of indolence supply ! Then to the dance , and make the sober moon Witness of joys that shun the sight of noon ...
... plain , The painted tablets , dealt and dealt again . Cards , with what rapture , and the polish'd die , The yawning chasm of indolence supply ! Then to the dance , and make the sober moon Witness of joys that shun the sight of noon ...
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... plain to others , is obscure to him . The will made subject to a lawless force , All is irregular , and out of course ; And judgment drunk , and brib'd to lose his way , Winks hard , and talks of darkness at noon - day . A critic on the ...
... plain to others , is obscure to him . The will made subject to a lawless force , All is irregular , and out of course ; And judgment drunk , and brib'd to lose his way , Winks hard , and talks of darkness at noon - day . A critic on the ...
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