Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ...J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1793 - 359 oldal |
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22. oldal
... spirits prompt to undertake , And not foon fpent , though in an arduous tafk ; The pow'rs of fancy and strong thought are their's ; Ev'n age itself seems privileg'd in them , With clear exemption from its own defects . A fparkling eye ...
... spirits prompt to undertake , And not foon fpent , though in an arduous tafk ; The pow'rs of fancy and strong thought are their's ; Ev'n age itself seems privileg'd in them , With clear exemption from its own defects . A fparkling eye ...
25. oldal
... spirits ebb ; the heart Recoils from its own choice - at the full feaft Is famifh'd - finds no music in the fong , No smartness in the jest ; and wonders why . Yet thousands still defire to journey on , Though halt , and weary of the ...
... spirits ebb ; the heart Recoils from its own choice - at the full feaft Is famifh'd - finds no music in the fong , No smartness in the jest ; and wonders why . Yet thousands still defire to journey on , Though halt , and weary of the ...
200. oldal
... spirit , strength , The scorn of danger , and united hearts ; The surest presage of the good they feek * . Then shame to manhood , and opprobrious more To France than all her losses and defeats , Old or of later date , by fea or land ...
... spirit , strength , The scorn of danger , and united hearts ; The surest presage of the good they feek * . Then shame to manhood , and opprobrious more To France than all her losses and defeats , Old or of later date , by fea or land ...
214. oldal
... , " We find found argument , we read the heart . " 1 Such reas'nings ( if that name must needs belong T ' excuses in which reason has no part ) Serve to compose a spirit well inclin'd To live on 214 BOOK V. THE TASK .
... , " We find found argument , we read the heart . " 1 Such reas'nings ( if that name must needs belong T ' excuses in which reason has no part ) Serve to compose a spirit well inclin'd To live on 214 BOOK V. THE TASK .
215. oldal
... spirit well inclin'd To live on terms of amity with vice , And fin without disturbance . Often urg'd , ( As often as libidinous discourse Exhausted , he reforts to folemn themes Of theological and grave import ) They gain at last his ...
... spirit well inclin'd To live on terms of amity with vice , And fin without disturbance . Often urg'd , ( As often as libidinous discourse Exhausted , he reforts to folemn themes Of theological and grave import ) They gain at last his ...
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343. oldal - 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.
350. oldal - 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...
139. oldal - 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.
275. oldal - 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.
218. oldal - 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.
65. oldal - 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.
101. oldal - 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...
46. oldal - 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.
47. oldal - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
219. oldal - 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 —