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... while professing to defend ; Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs spare ; Ye patriots , guard it with a miser's care . A. Patriots , alas ! the few that have been found , Where most they flourish , upon English ground , The ...
... while professing to defend ; Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs spare ; Ye patriots , guard it with a miser's care . A. Patriots , alas ! the few that have been found , Where most they flourish , upon English ground , The ...
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He trod the very self - same ground you tread , And victory refuted all he said . B. And yet his judgment was not framed amiss ; Its error , if it erred , was merely this-He thought the dying hour already come , And a complete recovery ...
He trod the very self - same ground you tread , And victory refuted all he said . B. And yet his judgment was not framed amiss ; Its error , if it erred , was merely this-He thought the dying hour already come , And a complete recovery ...
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Pity religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! [ stray , The flowers would spring where'er she deigned to And every muse attend her in her way . Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend , And many a compliment ...
Pity religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground ! [ stray , The flowers would spring where'er she deigned to And every muse attend her in her way . Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend , And many a compliment ...
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And pleased at heart because on holy ground Sometimes a canting hypocrite is found , Reproach a people with his single fall , And cast his filthy raiment at them all . Attend ! --- an apt similitude shall show Whence springs the conduct ...
And pleased at heart because on holy ground Sometimes a canting hypocrite is found , Reproach a people with his single fall , And cast his filthy raiment at them all . Attend ! --- an apt similitude shall show Whence springs the conduct ...
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... A slight gratuity atones for all , For though the pope has lost his interest here , And pardons are not sold as once they were , No papist more desirous to compound , Than some grave sinners upon English ground .
... A slight gratuity atones for all , For though the pope has lost his interest here , And pardons are not sold as once they were , No papist more desirous to compound , Than some grave sinners upon English ground .
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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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