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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... tongue , Most confident , when palpably most wrong ; - If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the Table Talk of clubs up - stairs , To which th ' unwash'd artificer repairs To indulge ...
... tongue , Most confident , when palpably most wrong ; - If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the Table Talk of clubs up - stairs , To which th ' unwash'd artificer repairs To indulge ...
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... tongue , 1 hear as mute as if a siren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . B. The cause ...
... tongue , 1 hear as mute as if a siren sung . Or tell me , if you can , what power maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains : That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . B. The cause ...
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... tongue inquires , how , where , or when , Though conscience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the sac.ed cause In all its parts , times , ministry , and laws , Bespeaks a land , once Christian , fallen and lost , In ...
... tongue inquires , how , where , or when , Though conscience will have twinges now and then ; When profanation of the sac.ed cause In all its parts , times , ministry , and laws , Bespeaks a land , once Christian , fallen and lost , In ...
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... tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love For , after all , if merely to beguile , By flowing numbers and a flowery style , The tædium that the lazy rich endure , Which now and ...
... tongue , That He , who died below , and reigns above , Inspires the song , and that his name is Love For , after all , if merely to beguile , By flowing numbers and a flowery style , The tædium that the lazy rich endure , Which now and ...
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... tongue . Ye ladies ! ( for , indifferent in your cause , I should deserve to forfeit all applause , ) Whatever shocks or gives the least offence To virtue , delicacy , truth , or sense ( Try the criterion , ' tis a faithful guide ) ...
... tongue . Ye ladies ! ( for , indifferent in your cause , I should deserve to forfeit all applause , ) Whatever shocks or gives the least offence To virtue , delicacy , truth , or sense ( Try the criterion , ' tis a faithful guide ) ...
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