The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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... true - for that unquestionably lay in the blood - but that it , along with many other untoward circumstances , increased its virulence , seems certain . Alas ! " The course of true love never did run smooth , " and even although it had ...
... true - for that unquestionably lay in the blood - but that it , along with many other untoward circumstances , increased its virulence , seems certain . Alas ! " The course of true love never did run smooth , " and even although it had ...
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... True glory and false , 1 - Man not made for kings , but kings for man , 47- Kingly glories of England , 63 - Quevedo's sarcasm on royalty , 94 - Kings not to be envied , but pitied , 108 - The objects of vulgar animadversion , 152 ...
... True glory and false , 1 - Man not made for kings , but kings for man , 47- Kingly glories of England , 63 - Quevedo's sarcasm on royalty , 94 - Kings not to be envied , but pitied , 108 - The objects of vulgar animadversion , 152 ...
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... 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 , To see a people scatter'd like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels ...
... 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 , To see a people scatter'd like a flock , Some royal mastiff panting at their heels ...
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... True . While they live , the courtly laureate pays His quit - rent ode , his peppercorn of praise ; 111 1 ' Quevedo : ' there is no such passage in the original Spanish . It has pro- bably been added by a translator . And many a dunce ...
... True . While they live , the courtly laureate pays His quit - rent ode , his peppercorn of praise ; 111 1 ' Quevedo : ' there is no such passage in the original Spanish . It has pro- bably been added by a translator . And many a dunce ...
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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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