The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1856 |
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... seek t ' endure A little pain , then find a cure By double joy requited ; For friendship , like a severed bone , Improves and joins a stronger tone When aptly reunited . Time , however , gradually convinced the lovers that they hoped in ...
... seek t ' endure A little pain , then find a cure By double joy requited ; For friendship , like a severed bone , Improves and joins a stronger tone When aptly reunited . Time , however , gradually convinced the lovers that they hoped in ...
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... 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 flood on summer's drooping flowers ; Unwelcome vapours ...
... 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 flood on summer's drooping flowers ; Unwelcome vapours ...
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... seek the distant plain ? No. His high mettle , under good control , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal Let Discipline employ her wholesome arts ; Let magistrates alert perform their parts ; Not skulk or put on a ...
... seek the distant plain ? No. His high mettle , under good control , Gives him Olympic speed , and shoots him to the goal Let Discipline employ her wholesome arts ; Let magistrates alert perform their parts ; Not skulk or put on a ...
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... Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves , but dangerous in the excess . Hark ! how it floats upon the dewy air ! O what a ...
... Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious from the path of truth ; Hourly allurements on his passions press , Safe in themselves , but dangerous in the excess . Hark ! how it floats upon the dewy air ! O what a ...
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... 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 has no hope who never had a fear ; And he that never ...
... 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 has no hope who never had a fear ; And he that never ...
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