The Poetical Works of William CowperBell and Daldy, 1825 - 611 pages |
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... hand , Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight , Now seek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud Th ' occasion - for the Fair commands the song . Time was , when clothing sumptuous or for ...
... hand , Escap'd with pain from that advent'rous flight , Now seek repose upon an humbler theme ; The theme though humble , yet august and proud Th ' occasion - for the Fair commands the song . Time was , when clothing sumptuous or for ...
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... hand ! Lovely indeed the mimic works of Art ; But Nature's works far lovelier . I admire , None more admires , the painter's magic skill , Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws ...
... hand ! Lovely indeed the mimic works of Art ; But Nature's works far lovelier . I admire , None more admires , the painter's magic skill , Who shows me that which I shall never see , Conveys a distant country into mine , And throws ...
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... hand , To deal and shuffle , to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences ; and sits , Spectatress both and speetacle , a sad And silent cipher , while her proxy plays . Others are dragg'd into the crowded room Between supporters ...
... hand , To deal and shuffle , to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences ; and sits , Spectatress both and speetacle , a sad And silent cipher , while her proxy plays . Others are dragg'd into the crowded room Between supporters ...
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... arts of civil life . His wants indeed are many ; but supply Is obvious , plac'd within the easy Or temp'rate wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives. reach * Alluding to the calamities in Jamaica . 1 August THE SOFA . 25.
... arts of civil life . His wants indeed are many ; but supply Is obvious , plac'd within the easy Or temp'rate wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives. reach * Alluding to the calamities in Jamaica . 1 August THE SOFA . 25.
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William Cowper. Or temp'rate wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil ; Not rude and surly , and beset with thorns , And terrible to sight , as when she springs ( If e'er she spring spontaneous ) in remote ...
William Cowper. Or temp'rate wishes and industrious hands . Here virtue thrives as in her proper soil ; Not rude and surly , and beset with thorns , And terrible to sight , as when she springs ( If e'er she spring spontaneous ) in remote ...
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