The Poetical Works of William CowperBell and Daldy, 1825 - 611 pages |
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... caused his widow to remove to Olney , in Buckinghamshire , which was thenceforth the principal place of Cowper's residence . At Olney he contracted a close friendship with the Rev. Mr. Newton , then minister there , and since rector of ...
... caused his widow to remove to Olney , in Buckinghamshire , which was thenceforth the principal place of Cowper's residence . At Olney he contracted a close friendship with the Rev. Mr. Newton , then minister there , and since rector of ...
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... cause , From strenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The sedentary stretch their lazy length When Custom bids , but no refreshment find , Por none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk ...
... cause , From strenuous toil his hours of sweetest ease . The sedentary stretch their lazy length When Custom bids , but no refreshment find , Por none they need : the languid eye , the cheek Deserted of its bloom , the flaccid , shrunk ...
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... cause Por such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet smiles , and beloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That THE SOFA 21.
... cause Por such immeasurable woe appears , These Flora banishes , and gives the fair Sweet smiles , and beloom less transient than her own . It is the constant revolution , stale And tasteless , of the same repeated joys , That THE SOFA 21.
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... and enclos'd In boundless oceans never to be pass'd By navigators uninform'd as they , Or plow'd perhaps by British bark again : But far beyond the rest , and with most cause , Thee , gentle savage ! " whom no love of 26 THE TASK .
... and enclos'd In boundless oceans never to be pass'd By navigators uninform'd as they , Or plow'd perhaps by British bark again : But far beyond the rest , and with most cause , Thee , gentle savage ! " whom no love of 26 THE TASK .
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... causes reproved . Our own late mis . carriages accounted for . Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontaine - Bleau ... cause , to the want of discipline in the universities . O por a lodge in some vast wilderness , Some boundless ...
... causes reproved . Our own late mis . carriages accounted for . Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontaine - Bleau ... cause , to the want of discipline in the universities . O por a lodge in some vast wilderness , Some boundless ...
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