The Poetical Works of William CowperH.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... proves a school in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , whole : 600 605 610 615 Mean self - attachment , and scarce aught beside . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western ...
... proves a school in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , whole : 600 605 610 615 Mean self - attachment , and scarce aught beside . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western ...
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... proved Too weak for those decisive blows , that once Insured us mastery there , we yet retain Some small pre - eminence ; we justly boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honours of the turf as all our own . Go then , well ...
... proved Too weak for those decisive blows , that once Insured us mastery there , we yet retain Some small pre - eminence ; we justly boast At least superior jockeyship , and claim The honours of the turf as all our own . Go then , well ...
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... and dark , 520 Left them as dark themselves . Their rules of life Defective and unsanction'd , proved too weak 22 Another lean unwashed artificer . King John . To bind the roving appetite , and lead Blind Nature B. II . 41 THE TASK .
... and dark , 520 Left them as dark themselves . Their rules of life Defective and unsanction'd , proved too weak 22 Another lean unwashed artificer . King John . To bind the roving appetite , and lead Blind Nature B. II . 41 THE TASK .
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... prove Sovereign and most effectual to secure A form not now gymnastic as of yore , From rickets and distortion , else , our lot . But thus admonish'd we can walk erect , One proof at least of manhood ; while the friend Sticks close , a ...
... prove Sovereign and most effectual to secure A form not now gymnastic as of yore , From rickets and distortion , else , our lot . But thus admonish'd we can walk erect , One proof at least of manhood ; while the friend Sticks close , a ...
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... proves at last A senseless bargain . When I see such games Play'd by the creatures of a Power who swears That he ... prove it in the infallible result So hollow and so false , -I feel my heart Dissolve in pity , and account the learn ...
... proves at last A senseless bargain . When I see such games Play'd by the creatures of a Power who swears That he ... prove it in the infallible result So hollow and so false , -I feel my heart Dissolve in pity , and account the learn ...
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