The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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Page 11
... Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots , guard it with a miser's care ! A. Patriots , alas ! the few that have been found Where most they flourish , upon English ground , The country's need have scantily supplied ...
... Prize it , ye ministers ; ye monarchs , spare ; Ye patriots , guard it with a miser's care ! A. Patriots , alas ! the few that have been found Where most they flourish , upon English ground , The country's need have scantily supplied ...
Page 12
... prize of happier times , will serve thee now . Our ancestry , a gallant Christian race , Patterns of every virtue , every grace , Confess'd a God ; they kneel'd before they fought , And praised him in the victories he wrought . Now from ...
... prize of happier times , will serve thee now . Our ancestry , a gallant Christian race , Patterns of every virtue , every grace , Confess'd a God ; they kneel'd before they fought , And praised him in the victories he wrought . Now from ...
Page 42
... prize belongs to none but the sincere , The least obliquity is fatal here . With caution taste the sweet Circean cup , He that sips often , at last drinks it up . Habits are soon assumed , but when we strive To strip them off , ' tis ...
... prize belongs to none but the sincere , The least obliquity is fatal here . With caution taste the sweet Circean cup , He that sips often , at last drinks it up . Habits are soon assumed , but when we strive To strip them off , ' tis ...
Page 45
... prize . Grace leads the right way ; if you choose the wrong , Take it and perish , but restrain your tongue ; Charge not , with light sufficient and left free , Your wilful suicide on God's decree . Oh how unlike the complex works of ...
... prize . Grace leads the right way ; if you choose the wrong , Take it and perish , but restrain your tongue ; Charge not , with light sufficient and left free , Your wilful suicide on God's decree . Oh how unlike the complex works of ...
Page 55
... prize . Envy , ye great , the dull unletter'd small ! Ye have much cause for envy - but not all : We boast some rich ones whom the Gospel sways , And one who wears a coronet and prays ; Like gleanings of an olive - tree , they show ...
... prize . Envy , ye great , the dull unletter'd small ! Ye have much cause for envy - but not all : We boast some rich ones whom the Gospel sways , And one who wears a coronet and prays ; Like gleanings of an olive - tree , they show ...
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