The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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... slave - trade , and occasional articles for the Analy- tical Review , along with deep but fitful sinkings of heart and spirits , filled up the complete round of his days - days serener than any that he was to know during the remaining ...
... slave - trade , and occasional articles for the Analy- tical Review , along with deep but fitful sinkings of heart and spirits , filled up the complete round of his days - days serener than any that he was to know during the remaining ...
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... slave . But let eternal infamy pursue 20 20 30 30 The wretch to nought but his ambition true , Who , for the sake of filling with one blast The post - horns of all Europe , lays her waste . Think yourself station'd on a towering rock ...
... slave . But let eternal infamy pursue 20 20 30 30 The wretch to nought but his ambition true , Who , for the sake of filling with one blast The post - horns of all Europe , lays her waste . Think yourself station'd on a towering rock ...
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... With which he shouts and carols , Vive le Roi ! Fill'd with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king say - Slave , be free . 213 220 230 240 Thus happiness depends , as Nature shows , Less on 8 TABLE TALK . co.
... With which he shouts and carols , Vive le Roi ! Fill'd with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king say - Slave , be free . 213 220 230 240 Thus happiness depends , as Nature shows , Less on 8 TABLE TALK . co.
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... slavery to a smile , And fill with discontent a British isle . A. Freeman and slave , then , if the case be such , Stand on a level ; and you prove too much . If all men indiscriminately share His fostering power and tutelary care , As ...
... slavery to a smile , And fill with discontent a British isle . A. Freeman and slave , then , if the case be such , Stand on a level ; and you prove too much . If all men indiscriminately share His fostering power and tutelary care , As ...
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... Slaves fight for what were better cast away— The chain that binds them , and a tyrant's sway ; But they that fight for freedom , undertake The noblest cause mankind can have at stake ; Religion , virtue , truth , whate'er we call A ...
... Slaves fight for what were better cast away— The chain that binds them , and a tyrant's sway ; But they that fight for freedom , undertake The noblest cause mankind can have at stake ; Religion , virtue , truth , whate'er we call A ...
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