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[ elude They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet nature here With stern severity deals out the year : Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling ...
[ elude They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet nature here With stern severity deals out the year : Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling ...
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But would you sell or slay your horse For bounding and curvetting in his course ; Or if , when ridden with a careless rein , He break away , and seek the distant plain ? No. His high mettle , under good control , Gives him Olympic speed ...
But would you sell or slay your horse For bounding and curvetting in his course ; Or if , when ridden with a careless rein , He break away , and seek the distant plain ? No. His high mettle , under good control , Gives him Olympic speed ...
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Nor these alone , whose pleasures less refined Might well alarm the most unguarded mind , Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in ...
Nor these alone , whose pleasures less refined Might well alarm the most unguarded mind , Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in ...
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... 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 . He That plea refuted , other quirks they seek --- 48 TRUTH .
... 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 . He That plea refuted , other quirks they seek --- 48 TRUTH .
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He That plea refuted , other quirks they seek --- Mercy is infinite , and man is weak ; The future shall obliterate the past , And heaven , no doubt , shall be their home at last . Come then -- a still small whisper in your ear --- He ...
He That plea refuted , other quirks they seek --- Mercy is infinite , and man is weak ; The future shall obliterate the past , And heaven , no doubt , shall be their home at last . Come then -- a still small whisper in your ear --- He ...
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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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