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Page 13
Nineveh , Babylon , and ancient Rome , Speak to the present times , and times to come ; They cry aloud in every careless ear , Stop , while you may ; suspend your mad career ; O learn from our example and our fate , Learn wisdom and ...
Nineveh , Babylon , and ancient Rome , Speak to the present times , and times to come ; They cry aloud in every careless ear , Stop , while you may ; suspend your mad career ; O learn from our example and our fate , Learn wisdom and ...
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They trust in armies , and their courage dies ; In wisdom , wealth , in fortune , and in lies ; But all they trust in withers , as it must , When he commands , in whom they place no trust . Vengeance at last pours down upon their coast ...
They trust in armies , and their courage dies ; In wisdom , wealth , in fortune , and in lies ; But all they trust in withers , as it must , When he commands , in whom they place no trust . Vengeance at last pours down upon their coast ...
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Not more industrious are the just and true , To give to virtue what is virtue's dųe ---- The praise of wisdom , comeliness , and worth , And call her charms to public notice forthThan vice's mean and disingenuous race , To hide the ...
Not more industrious are the just and true , To give to virtue what is virtue's dųe ---- The praise of wisdom , comeliness , and worth , And call her charms to public notice forthThan vice's mean and disingenuous race , To hide the ...
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place , And wisdom falls before exterior grace ; We slight the precious kernel of the stone , And toil to polish its rough coat alone . A just deportment , manners graced with ease , Elegant phrase ...
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place , And wisdom falls before exterior grace ; We slight the precious kernel of the stone , And toil to polish its rough coat alone . A just deportment , manners graced with ease , Elegant phrase ...
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Of all that wisdom dictates , this the drift , That man is dead in sin , and life a gift . Is virtue then , unless of Christian growth , Mere fallacy , or foolishness , or both ? Ten thousand sages lost in endless woe , For ignorance of ...
Of all that wisdom dictates , this the drift , That man is dead in sin , and life a gift . Is virtue then , unless of Christian growth , Mere fallacy , or foolishness , or both ? Ten thousand sages lost in endless woe , For ignorance of ...
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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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