The Poetical Works of William CowperBell and Daldy, 1825 - 611 pages |
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Page 17
... honours bright . O'er these , but far beyond ( a spacious map Of hill and valley interpos'd between ) , The Ouse , dividing the well - water'd land , Now glitters in the sun , and now retires , As bashful , yet impatient to be seen ...
... honours bright . O'er these , but far beyond ( a spacious map Of hill and valley interpos'd between ) , The Ouse , dividing the well - water'd land , Now glitters in the sun , and now retires , As bashful , yet impatient to be seen ...
Page 22
... honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay -- the lark is gay , That drys bis feathers , saturate with dew , Beneath the rosy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring over - shoot his humble ...
... honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name . The innocent are gay -- the lark is gay , That drys bis feathers , saturate with dew , Beneath the rosy cloud , while yet the beams Of day - spring over - shoot his humble ...
Page 30
... honour too , To peculators of the public gold ; That thieves at home must hang ; but he , that puts Into his overgorg'd and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces , escapes . Nor is it well , nor can it come to good ,. That.
... honour too , To peculators of the public gold ; That thieves at home must hang ; but he , that puts Into his overgorg'd and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces , escapes . Nor is it well , nor can it come to good ,. That.
Page 39
... , That Chatham's language was his mother's tongue , And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own . Parewell those honours , and farewell with them The hope of such hereafter ; they have fallin Each THE TIME PIECE . 39.
... , That Chatham's language was his mother's tongue , And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own . Parewell those honours , and farewell with them The hope of such hereafter ; they have fallin Each THE TIME PIECE . 39.
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... honours of the turf as all our own ! Go then , well worthy of the praise ye seek , And show the shame , ye might conceal at home , In foreign eyes ! -be grooms and win the plate , Where once your nobler fathers won a crown ! ' T is gen ...
... honours of the turf as all our own ! Go then , well worthy of the praise ye seek , And show the shame , ye might conceal at home , In foreign eyes ! -be grooms and win the plate , Where once your nobler fathers won a crown ! ' T is gen ...
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