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Take , if ye can , ye careless and supine , Counsel and caution from a voice like mine ! Truths , that the theorist could never reach , And observation taught me , I would teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy tills , Musical as ...
Take , if ye can , ye careless and supine , Counsel and caution from a voice like mine ! Truths , that the theorist could never reach , And observation taught me , I would teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy tills , Musical as ...
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Man , thus endued with an elective voice , Must be supplied with objects of his choice : Where'er he turns , enjoyment and delight , Or present , or in prospect , meet his sight ; Those open on the spot their honeyed store ; These call ...
Man , thus endued with an elective voice , Must be supplied with objects of his choice : Where'er he turns , enjoyment and delight , Or present , or in prospect , meet his sight ; Those open on the spot their honeyed store ; These call ...
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Oh that unwelcome voice of heavenly love , Sad messenger of mercy from above ! How does it grate upon his thankless ear , Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear ; His will and judgment at continual strife , That civil war ...
Oh that unwelcome voice of heavenly love , Sad messenger of mercy from above ! How does it grate upon his thankless ear , Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear ; His will and judgment at continual strife , That civil war ...
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... And never of a sabler hue than now ) Hast thou , with heart perverse and conscience seared , Despising all rebuke , still persevered , And having chosen evil , scorned the voice That cried , Repent ! --- and gloried in thy choice ?
... And never of a sabler hue than now ) Hast thou , with heart perverse and conscience seared , Despising all rebuke , still persevered , And having chosen evil , scorned the voice That cried , Repent ! --- and gloried in thy choice ?
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... He was a traitor by the general voice . Oh slave ! with powers thou didst not dare exert , Verse cannot stoop so low as thy desert ; It shakes the sides of splenetic disdain , Thou self - entitled ruler of the main , To trace thee ...
... He was a traitor by the general voice . Oh slave ! with powers thou didst not dare exert , Verse cannot stoop so low as thy desert ; It shakes the sides of splenetic disdain , Thou self - entitled ruler of the main , To trace thee ...
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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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