The Poetical Works of William CowperBell and Daldy, 1825 - 611 pages |
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... thought to thought with no perceptible method . For the purpose of losing in employment the distressing ideas which were ever apt to recur , he next undertook the real task of translating into blank verse the whole of Homer's Iliad and ...
... thought to thought with no perceptible method . For the purpose of losing in employment the distressing ideas which were ever apt to recur , he next undertook the real task of translating into blank verse the whole of Homer's Iliad and ...
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... thought Devis'd the weather - house , that useful toy ! Fearless of humid air and gath'ring rains , Forth steps the man - an emblem of myself ! More delicate his tim'rous mate retires . When Winter soaks the fields , and female feet ...
... thought Devis'd the weather - house , that useful toy ! Fearless of humid air and gath'ring rains , Forth steps the man - an emblem of myself ! More delicate his tim'rous mate retires . When Winter soaks the fields , and female feet ...
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... thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it affords . Its elevated site forbids the wretch To drink sweet waters of the crystal well : He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch , And , heavy laden , brings his ...
... thought ! the dweller in that still retreat Dearly obtains the refuge it affords . Its elevated site forbids the wretch To drink sweet waters of the crystal well : He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch , And , heavy laden , brings his ...
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... thoughts are theirs ; Ev'n age itself seems privileg'd in them With clear exemption from it's own defects . A sparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The vet'ran shows , and , gracing a gray beard With youthful smiles , descends toward ...
... thoughts are theirs ; Ev'n age itself seems privileg'd in them With clear exemption from it's own defects . A sparkling eye beneath a wrinkled front The vet'ran shows , and , gracing a gray beard With youthful smiles , descends toward ...
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... thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no pow'r of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little , when she paints thee thus . She tells me too , that duly ev'ry morn ...
... thought of her forlorn and abject state , From which no pow'r of thine can raise her up . Thus fancy paints thee , and , though apt to err , Perhaps errs little , when she paints thee thus . She tells me too , that duly ev'ry morn ...
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