The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1William P. Nimmo, 1869 - 428 pages |
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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 .
... 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 .
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... Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant o'er all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And weighs the nations in an even scale ; He can ...
... Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant o'er all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with gracious aid ; Bids equity throughout his works prevail , And weighs the nations in an even scale ; He can ...
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... Nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene , To throw his dark displeasure o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar ; Nature ...
... Nature's laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene , To throw his dark displeasure o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar ; Nature ...
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... Nature's guest by invitation sweet , Receives from her both appetite and treat ; But , if he play the glutton and exceed , His benefactress blushes at the deed . For Nature , nice , as liberal to dispense , Made nothing but a brute the ...
... Nature's guest by invitation sweet , Receives from her both appetite and treat ; But , if he play the glutton and exceed , His benefactress blushes at the deed . For Nature , nice , as liberal to dispense , Made nothing but a brute the ...
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... nature to a glow ; Or whether clearer skies and softer air , That make Italian flowers so sweet and fair , Freshening his lazy spirits as he ran , Unfolded genially and spread the man ; Returning , he proclaims , by many a grace , By ...
... nature to a glow ; Or whether clearer skies and softer air , That make Italian flowers so sweet and fair , Freshening his lazy spirits as he ran , Unfolded genially and spread the man ; Returning , he proclaims , by many a grace , By ...
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ANTISTROPHE bard beauty beneath blest boast Boötes breast breath call'd CALLIMACHUS charms Cowper dark dear death delight divine dream e'en earth ease eyes fair faith fame fancy fear feel fire fix'd flowers folly form'd give glory grace groves hand happy hear heart Heaven heavenly honour hope Huntingtown JEHOVAH-SHALOM John Gilpin labour light live Lord lyre mind Muse Nature never night nymphs o'er OLNEY HYMNS once pain Pallas peace Phoebus pleasure poet praise prayer prove rest sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shore sight skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound stamp'd stream sweet taste tears thee theme thine thou art thought toil trembling truth Twas verse vex'd VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice Warren Hastings waste Westminster School WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wind wisdom wonder worth youth