The Poetical Works of William Cowper. With Life of the AuthorMilner and Sowerby, 1864 - 448 pages |
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... taste , His galleries with the works of art well grac'รก , To hear it called extravagance and waste- If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humble and confin'd the sphere , Happy ...
... taste , His galleries with the works of art well grac'รก , To hear it called extravagance and waste- If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humble and confin'd the sphere , Happy ...
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... taste Is so refin'd , and delicate , and chaste , That verse , whatever fire the fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness , has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If ...
... taste Is so refin'd , and delicate , and chaste , That verse , whatever fire the fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness , has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If ...
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... taste : But when the second Charles assumed the sway , And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forc'd into a curve , The mind , released from too constrained a nerve , Flew to its first position with a spring ...
... taste : But when the second Charles assumed the sway , And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forc'd into a curve , The mind , released from too constrained a nerve , Flew to its first position with a spring ...
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... taste . Rufillus , exquisitely form'd by rule , Not of the moral but the dancing school , Wonders at Clodio's follies , in a tone As tragical as others at his own . He cannot drink five bottles , bilk the score , Then kill a constable ...
... taste . Rufillus , exquisitely form'd by rule , Not of the moral but the dancing school , Wonders at Clodio's follies , in a tone As tragical as others at his own . He cannot drink five bottles , bilk the score , Then kill a constable ...
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... taste ? Like fabled Tantalus , condemn'd to hear The precious stream still purling in his ear , Lip - deep in what he longs for , and yet curst With prohibition and perpetual thirst ? No , wrangler - destitute of shame and sense ; The ...
... taste ? Like fabled Tantalus , condemn'd to hear The precious stream still purling in his ear , Lip - deep in what he longs for , and yet curst With prohibition and perpetual thirst ? No , wrangler - destitute of shame and sense ; The ...
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