Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ...J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1793 - 359 páginas |
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... that felt no ease ; The flipp'ry feat betray'd the fliding part That prefs'd it , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the distant floor . These for the rich : the reft , whom fate B 2 BOOK I. 3 THE SOFA .
... that felt no ease ; The flipp'ry feat betray'd the fliding part That prefs'd it , and the feet hung dangling down , Anxious in vain to find the distant floor . These for the rich : the reft , whom fate B 2 BOOK I. 3 THE SOFA .
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... distant floods , or on the fofter voice Of neighb'ring fountain , or of rills that flip Through the cleft rock , and , chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles , lose themselves at length In matted grafs , that with a livelier green ...
... distant floods , or on the fofter voice Of neighb'ring fountain , or of rills that flip Through the cleft rock , and , chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles , lose themselves at length In matted grafs , that with a livelier green ...
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... distant shades ; There , loft behind a rifing ground , the wood Seems funk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler fome , And of a wannish gray ; the ...
... distant shades ; There , loft behind a rifing ground , the wood Seems funk , and shorten'd to its topmost boughs . No tree in all the grove but has its charms , Though each its hue peculiar ; paler fome , And of a wannish gray ; the ...
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... distant fhores ; and fhe would fit and weep At what a failor fuffers ; fancy , too , Delusive moft where warmest wishes are , Would oft anticipate his glad return , And dream of transports she was not to know . She heard the doleful ...
... distant fhores ; and fhe would fit and weep At what a failor fuffers ; fancy , too , Delusive moft where warmest wishes are , Would oft anticipate his glad return , And dream of transports she was not to know . She heard the doleful ...
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... distant , and that prophecy demands A longer refpite , unaccomplish'd yet ; Alluding to the calamities at Jamaica . Auguft 18 , 1783 . Alluding to the fog that covered both Europe and Afia during the whole fum mer of 1783 . Still they ...
... distant , and that prophecy demands A longer refpite , unaccomplish'd yet ; Alluding to the calamities at Jamaica . Auguft 18 , 1783 . Alluding to the fog that covered both Europe and Afia during the whole fum mer of 1783 . Still they ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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 —