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... throne ; Before whose infant eyes the flatterer bows , And binds a wreath about their baby brows ; Whom Education stiffens into state , And Death awakens from that dream too late . Oh ! if Servility , with supple knees , Whose TABLE TALK .
... throne ; Before whose infant eyes the flatterer bows , And binds a wreath about their baby brows ; Whom Education stiffens into state , And Death awakens from that dream too late . Oh ! if Servility , with supple knees , Whose TABLE TALK .
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... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares ; They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares ; They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
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... dream , The poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it ...
... dream , The poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it ...
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... dream ; Yours real and pernicious in the extreme . What then ! -are appetites and lusts laid down With the same ease that man puts on his gown ? Will avarice and concupiscence give place , [ Grace ? Charm'd by the sounds - Your ...
... dream ; Yours real and pernicious in the extreme . What then ! -are appetites and lusts laid down With the same ease that man puts on his gown ? Will avarice and concupiscence give place , [ Grace ? Charm'd by the sounds - Your ...
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William Cowper. Whose corresponding misses fill the ream With sentimental frippery and dream , Caught in a delicate soft silken net By some lewd earl , or rakehell baronet : Ye pimps , who , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the ...
William Cowper. Whose corresponding misses fill the ream With sentimental frippery and dream , Caught in a delicate soft silken net By some lewd earl , or rakehell baronet : Ye pimps , who , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the ...
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beams beneath bids bless'd bliss blooming groves boast BODHAM breast call'd charms Cheapside CHISWICK courser dark dear deeds delight design'd divine dream e'en earth Edmonton errours eyes fair Fancy fear feel fire flowers folly fool form'd frown GEORGE ROMNEY Gilpin give glory God's grace hand happy hast hate heart Heaven heavenly hope hour JOHN GILPIN labour land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mind muse Nature never night nymph o'er once pass'd peace perhaps Pharisee pleasure poet poet's praise pride proud prove Rome rude sacred scene scorn scorn'd Scripture seem'd shine sight sithe skies smile song SONNET sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste tears telescopic eye tempest thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler true truth Twas verse VIRG virtue waste Whate'er wild WILLIAM COWPER wintry wisdom zeal