The Poetical Works of William Cowper ...James R. Osgood and Company, 1877 |
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... Heaven , that it burns down to earth , And , in the furious inquest that it makes On God's behalf , lays waste his fairest works . The very elements , though each be meant The minister of man , to serve his wants , THE TIME - PIECE . 37 32.
... Heaven , that it burns down to earth , And , in the furious inquest that it makes On God's behalf , lays waste his fairest works . The very elements , though each be meant The minister of man , to serve his wants , THE TIME - PIECE . 37 32.
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... Heaven In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin , And putrefy the breath of blooming Health . He calls for Famine , and the meagre fiend Blows mildew ...
... Heaven In tempests ; quits his grasp upon the winds , And gives them all their fury ; bids a plague Kindle a fiery boil upon the skin , And putrefy the breath of blooming Health . He calls for Famine , and the meagre fiend Blows mildew ...
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... heaven all were ! But hark - the doctor's voice ! -fast wedged be- tween Two empirics he stands , and with swoln cheeks Inspires the news , his trumpet . Keener far Than all invective is his bold harangue , While through that public ...
... heaven all were ! But hark - the doctor's voice ! -fast wedged be- tween Two empirics he stands , and with swoln cheeks Inspires the news , his trumpet . Keener far Than all invective is his bold harangue , While through that public ...
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... Of whom I needs must augur better things , Since Heaven would sure grow weary of a world Productive only of a race like ours , A monitor is wood - plank shaven thin . ነ We wear it at our backs . There , 52 B. II . THE TASK .
... Of whom I needs must augur better things , Since Heaven would sure grow weary of a world Productive only of a race like ours , A monitor is wood - plank shaven thin . ነ We wear it at our backs . There , 52 B. II . THE TASK .
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... Heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wise ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit pleasure , hopeless of success ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood , and ...
... Heaven's peculiar grace , escape . There we grow early gray , but never wise ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit pleasure , hopeless of success ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood , and ...
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