Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ...J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1793 - Počet stran: 359 |
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Strana 26
... , all forbid . Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay - the lark is gay , That dries his feathers , faturate with dew , Beneath 26 . BOOK I. THE TASK .
... , all forbid . Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay - the lark is gay , That dries his feathers , faturate with dew , Beneath 26 . BOOK I. THE TASK .
Strana 33
... boast but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lofe in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious eafe . These therefore I can pity , plac'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration teaches ...
... boast but little virtue ; and , inert Through plenty , lofe in morals what they gain In manners - victims of luxurious eafe . These therefore I can pity , plac'd remote From all that science traces , art invents , Or inspiration teaches ...
Strana 57
... boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill th ' ambition of a private man , That Chatham's language was his mother tongue , And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his ...
... boast enough In ev'ry clime , and travel where we might , That we were born her children . Praise enough To fill th ' ambition of a private man , That Chatham's language was his mother tongue , And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his ...
Strana 59
... boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honours of the turf as all our own ! Go , then , well worthy of the praise ye seek , And show the shame ye might conceal at home In foreign eyes ! -be grooms , and win the plate nobler ...
... boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honours of the turf as all our own ! Go , then , well worthy of the praise ye seek , And show the shame ye might conceal at home In foreign eyes ! -be grooms , and win the plate nobler ...
Strana 102
... boast not - neither can I rest A filent witness of the headlong rage Or heedlefs folly by which thoufands die , Bone of my bone , and kindred fouls to mine . God never meant that man fhould fcale the heav'ns By ftrides of human wisdom ...
... boast not - neither can I rest A filent witness of the headlong rage Or heedlefs folly by which thoufands die , Bone of my bone , and kindred fouls to mine . God never meant that man fhould fcale the heav'ns By ftrides of human wisdom ...
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Strana 343 - 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.
Strana 350 - Were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road Most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke As they had basted been. But still he...
Strana 139 - 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.
Strana 275 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Strana 218 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Strana 65 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own — Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design.
Strana 101 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Strana 46 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Strana 47 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Strana 219 - His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —