The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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Page 15
... frown , And mark them with the seal of wrath press'd down , Obduracy takes place ; callous and tough , The reprobated race grows judgment - proof ; Earth shakes beneath them , and heaven roars above , But nothing scares them from the ...
... frown , And mark them with the seal of wrath press'd down , Obduracy takes place ; callous and tough , The reprobated race grows judgment - proof ; Earth shakes beneath them , and heaven roars above , But nothing scares them from the ...
Page 49
... frown , But , if you please , some fathoms lower down . Artist , attend - your brushes and your paint— Produce them - take a chair - now draw a Saint . Oh , sorrowful and sad ! the streaming tears Channel her cheeks , -a Niobe appears ...
... frown , But , if you please , some fathoms lower down . Artist , attend - your brushes and your paint— Produce them - take a chair - now draw a Saint . Oh , sorrowful and sad ! the streaming tears Channel her cheeks , -a Niobe appears ...
Page 50
... , Sighs if perhaps your appetite should fail , And if he but suspects a frown , turns pale ; Consults all day your interest and your ease , Richly rewarded if he can but please , And , proud to make his firm attachment known , 50 TRUTH .
... , Sighs if perhaps your appetite should fail , And if he but suspects a frown , turns pale ; Consults all day your interest and your ease , Richly rewarded if he can but please , And , proud to make his firm attachment known , 50 TRUTH .
Page 66
... frown , As if , not love , but wrath , had brought him down : Yet he was gentle as soft summer airs , Had grace for others ' sins , but none for theirs . Through all he spoke a noble plainness ran ; Rhetoric is artifice , the work of ...
... frown , As if , not love , but wrath , had brought him down : Yet he was gentle as soft summer airs , Had grace for others ' sins , but none for theirs . Through all he spoke a noble plainness ran ; Rhetoric is artifice , the work of ...
Page 69
... received her retribution due When we were visited , what hope for you ? When God arises with an awful frown , To punish lust , or pluck presumption down ; 250 When gifts perverted , or not duly prized , Pleasure EXPOSTULATION . 69.
... received her retribution due When we were visited , what hope for you ? When God arises with an awful frown , To punish lust , or pluck presumption down ; 250 When gifts perverted , or not duly prized , Pleasure EXPOSTULATION . 69.
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