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Page 48
Thou fool ! will thy discovery of the cause Suspend the effect , or heal it ? Has not
God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world ? And did he not of old
employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious ...
Thou fool ! will thy discovery of the cause Suspend the effect , or heal it ? Has not
God Still wrought by means fince first he made the world ? And did he not of old
employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious ...
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But fafter far , and more than all the rest , A noble cause , which none , who bears
a spark Of public virtue , ever wilhed removed , Works the deplored and
mischievous effect . ' Tis universal soldiership has stabbed The heart of merit in
the ...
But fafter far , and more than all the rest , A noble cause , which none , who bears
a spark Of public virtue , ever wilhed removed , Works the deplored and
mischievous effect . ' Tis universal soldiership has stabbed The heart of merit in
the ...
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For he , who values liberty , confines His zeal for her predominance within No
narrow bounds ; her cause engages him Wherever pleaded . ' Tis the cause of
man . There dwell the most forlorn of human kind , Immured though unaccused ...
For he , who values liberty , confines His zeal for her predominance within No
narrow bounds ; her cause engages him Wherever pleaded . ' Tis the cause of
man . There dwell the most forlorn of human kind , Immured though unaccused ...
Page 208
But how should matter occupy a charge Dull as it is , and satisfy a law So vast in
its demands , unless impelled To ceaseless service by a ceaseless force , And
under pressure of some conscious cause ? The Lord of all , himself through all ...
But how should matter occupy a charge Dull as it is , and satisfy a law So vast in
its demands , unless impelled To ceaseless service by a ceaseless force , And
under pressure of some conscious cause ? The Lord of all , himself through all ...
Page 310
Be it Dapple ' s bray , Or be it not , or be it whose it may , And rush those other
sounds , that seem by tongues Of dæmons uttered , from whatever lungs ,
Sounds are but sounds , and till the cause appear We have at least commodious
standing ...
Be it Dapple ' s bray , Or be it not , or be it whose it may , And rush those other
sounds , that seem by tongues Of dæmons uttered , from whatever lungs ,
Sounds are but sounds , and till the cause appear We have at least commodious
standing ...
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Page 317 - Wouldst softly speak and stroke my head and smile — Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here? I would not trust my heart : the dear delight Seems so to be desired, perhaps I might.
Page 197 - The night was winter in his roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Page 119 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 220 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 41 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 228 - To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. All creatures worship man, and all mankind One Lord, one Father.
Page 121 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat. To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 354 - Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not to be tamed at all ; and Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols...
Page 328 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Page 185 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems, Volume 2 of Poems, William Cowper |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1803 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 363 pages |
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