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Page 44
Ancient towers , And roofs embattled high , the gloomy scenes , Where beauty oft
and lettered worth consume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone
: the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release From ...
Ancient towers , And roofs embattled high , the gloomy scenes , Where beauty oft
and lettered worth consume Life in the unproductive shades of death , Fall prone
: the pale inhabitants come forth , And , happy in their unforeseen release From ...
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Men that , if now alive , would fit content And humble learners of a Saviour ' s
worth , Preach it who might . Such was their love of truth , Their thirst of
knowledge , and their candour too ! And thus it is . — The paftor , either vain By
nature , or by ...
Men that , if now alive , would fit content And humble learners of a Saviour ' s
worth , Preach it who might . Such was their love of truth , Their thirst of
knowledge , and their candour too ! And thus it is . — The paftor , either vain By
nature , or by ...
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To his true worth , most pleased when idle most ; Whose only happy are their
wasted hours . E ' en misses , at whose age their mothers wore The back - string
and the bib , assume the dress Of womanhood , fit pupils in the school Of card ...
To his true worth , most pleased when idle most ; Whose only happy are their
wasted hours . E ' en misses , at whose age their mothers wore The back - string
and the bib , assume the dress Of womanhood , fit pupils in the school Of card ...
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In him thy well - appointed proxy see , Armed for a work too difficult for thee ;
Prepared by taste , by learning , and true worth , To form thy son , to strike his
genius forth ; Beneath thy roof , beneath thine eye , to prove The force of
discipline when ...
In him thy well - appointed proxy see , Armed for a work too difficult for thee ;
Prepared by taste , by learning , and true worth , To form thy son , to strike his
genius forth ; Beneath thy roof , beneath thine eye , to prove The force of
discipline when ...
Page 302
Must be decided by the worth Of that , which called his ardour forth . Trifles
pursued , whate ' er the event , Must cause him shame or discontent ; A vicious
object still is worse , Successful there he wins a curse ; But he , whom ev ' n in life
' s last ...
Must be decided by the worth Of that , which called his ardour forth . Trifles
pursued , whate ' er the event , Must cause him shame or discontent ; A vicious
object still is worse , Successful there he wins a curse ; But he , whom ev ' n in life
' s last ...
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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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