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Oh ! if servility with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to please ; If smooth dissimulation , skilled to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers , Encompassing his ...
Oh ! if servility with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to please ; If smooth dissimulation , skilled to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers , Encompassing his ...
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When tumult lately burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a roar ; When he usurped authority's just place , And dared to look his inaster in the face ; When the rude rabble's watch - word was --- destroy , And blazing ...
When tumult lately burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a roar ; When he usurped authority's just place , And dared to look his inaster in the face ; When the rude rabble's watch - word was --- destroy , And blazing ...
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Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made , To turn a penny in the way of trade ; When avarice starves ( and never hides his face ) Two or three millions of the human race , And not a tongue enquires , how , where , or when , Though ...
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made , To turn a penny in the way of trade ; When avarice starves ( and never hides his face ) Two or three millions of the human race , And not a tongue enquires , how , where , or when , Though ...
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When Cromwell fought for power , and while he reigned The proud protector of the power he gained , Religion harsh , intolerant , austere , Parent of manners like herself severe ; Drew a rough copy of the Christian face , Without the ...
When Cromwell fought for power , and while he reigned The proud protector of the power he gained , Religion harsh , intolerant , austere , Parent of manners like herself severe ; Drew a rough copy of the Christian face , Without the ...
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Then Pope , as harmony itself exact , In verse well disciplined , complete , compact , Gave virtue and morality a grace , That , quite eclipsing pleasure's painted face , Levied a tax of wonder and applause , Even on the fools that ...
Then Pope , as harmony itself exact , In verse well disciplined , complete , compact , Gave virtue and morality a grace , That , quite eclipsing pleasure's painted face , Levied a tax of wonder and applause , Even on the fools that ...
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| Title | Poems, Volume 1 Poems, William Cowper Poems. by William Cowper. With the life of the author by T. Greatheed, William Cowper |
| Author | William Cowper |
| Publisher | W. Wilson, 1821 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
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