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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... worth my care ; Absence from whom we love is worse than death , And frustrate hope severer than despair . But to proceed : a period was now approaching in Cowper's life which presented the peculiarities of his character in their ...
... worth my care ; Absence from whom we love is worse than death , And frustrate hope severer than despair . But to proceed : a period was now approaching in Cowper's life which presented the peculiarities of his character in their ...
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... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
... worth , with all its gold and glittering store , Just what the toy will sell for and no more . Oh ! bright occasions of dispensing good , How seldom used , how little understood To pour in Virtue's lap her just reward ; Keep Vice ...
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... worth of his three kingdoms I defy , To lure me to the baseness of a lie : And , of all lies ( be that one poet's boast ) , The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign ; But he that loves ...
... worth of his three kingdoms I defy , To lure me to the baseness of a lie : And , of all lies ( be that one poet's boast ) , The lie that flatters I abhor the most . Those arts be theirs , who hate his gentle reign ; But he that loves ...
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... animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . B. The cause , though worth the search , may yet Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . [ eluds They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who TABLE TALK . 81.
... animate the dead , And move the lips of poets cast in lead . B. The cause , though worth the search , may yet Conjecture and remark , however shrewd . [ eluds They take perhaps a well - directed aim , Who TABLE TALK . 81.
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... very name , And fierce Licentiousness should bear the blame . Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; [ sold ; Cheap though blood - bought , and thrown away when May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend 84 TABLE TALK .
... very name , And fierce Licentiousness should bear the blame . Incomparable gem ! thy worth untold ; [ sold ; Cheap though blood - bought , and thrown away when May no foes ravish thee , and no false friend 84 TABLE TALK .
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