The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country ; with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of ThomsonJ. Grigg, 1832 - 537 pages |
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... seen . Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighbouring lairs ; Save that his scent is less acute than theirs ; For persevering chase , and headlong leaps , True beagle as the staunchest hound he keeps ...
... seen . Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the Nimrod of the neighbouring lairs ; Save that his scent is less acute than theirs ; For persevering chase , and headlong leaps , True beagle as the staunchest hound he keeps ...
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... seen of men ; His virtues were his pride ; and that one vice Made all his virtues gewgaws of no price ; He wore them as fine trappings for a show , A praying , synagogue - frequenting beau . The self - applauding bird , the peacock see ...
... seen of men ; His virtues were his pride ; and that one vice Made all his virtues gewgaws of no price ; He wore them as fine trappings for a show , A praying , synagogue - frequenting beau . The self - applauding bird , the peacock see ...
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... seen on high , The future tone and temper of the sky ; But , grave dissemblers could not understand That Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand Ask now of history's authentic page , And call up evidence from ev'ry age ; Display with ...
... seen on high , The future tone and temper of the sky ; But , grave dissemblers could not understand That Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand Ask now of history's authentic page , And call up evidence from ev'ry age ; Display with ...
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... seen and now concealed ; From the blue rim , where skies and mountains meet , Down to the very turf beneath thy feet , Ten thousand charms , that only fools despise , Or pride can look at with indifferent eyes , All speak one language ...
... seen and now concealed ; From the blue rim , where skies and mountains meet , Down to the very turf beneath thy feet , Ten thousand charms , that only fools despise , Or pride can look at with indifferent eyes , All speak one language ...
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... seen by blessings understood : That bliss , revealed in Scripture , with a glow Bright as the covenant - ensuring bow , Fires all his feelings with a noble scorn Of sensual evil , and thus Hope is born . Hope sets the stamp of vanity on ...
... seen by blessings understood : That bliss , revealed in Scripture , with a glow Bright as the covenant - ensuring bow , Fires all his feelings with a noble scorn Of sensual evil , and thus Hope is born . Hope sets the stamp of vanity on ...
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Adieu affectionate amusement beauty believe blank verse Bodham charms Cowper dear cousin DEAR FRIEND dearest death delight divine dream e'en earth Eartham favour fear feel give glad grace hand happy HAYLEY hear heard heart Heaven Homer honour hope Iliad JAMES THOMSON John Gilpin JOHN JOHNSON JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind labour LADY HESKETH least less letter live Lord mind morning muse nature never NEWTON night o'er obliged occasion Olney once peace perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poor praise present prove reason received scene seems shine smile song soon soul spirit suppose sure sweet taste tell thank thee thine thing Thomson thou thought tion truth verse Vincent Bourne virtue Weston WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN winter wish worth write
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Page 135 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth : But higher far my proud pretensions rise ; The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 78 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 127 - Away went hat and wig; He little dreamt when he set out, Of running such a rig. The wind did blow, the cloak did fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul cried out, Well done!
Page 128 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear, For while he spake a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear. Whereat his horse did snort as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might As he had done before.
Page 123 - Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — .
Page 153 - He loved them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again. Not long beneath the whelming brine, Expert to swim, he lay; Nor soon he felt his strength decline, Or courage die away ; But waged with Death a lasting strife, Supported by despair of life.
Page 126 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. "My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 134 - I learned at last submission to my lot ; But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more, Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapped In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet capped, Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own.
Page 52 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye Constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great Source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam his praise.
Page 66 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. To such I render more than mere respect, Whose actions say, that they respect themselves.