The Poetical Works of William CowperRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - 630 pages |
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... theme . Now we have a series of what , in the want of an English term , we may call genre - paintings , displaying home - life under its aspects of refinement and ease ; then a moral and philosophical reflection , after the manner of ...
... theme . Now we have a series of what , in the want of an English term , we may call genre - paintings , displaying home - life under its aspects of refinement and ease ; then a moral and philosophical reflection , after the manner of ...
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... theme , O Richardson , pursues , Her feebler spirits faint ; She cannot reach , and would not wrong , That subject for an angel's song , The hero , and the saint ! AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD , ESQ . 1754 . [ LLOYD was at this period an ...
... theme , O Richardson , pursues , Her feebler spirits faint ; She cannot reach , and would not wrong , That subject for an angel's song , The hero , and the saint ! AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD , ESQ . 1754 . [ LLOYD was at this period an ...
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... themes my fancy raise ! Two combatants , who scorn to yield The noisy , tongue - disputed field , Sarmentus and Cicirrus , claim A poet's tribute to their fame ; Cicirrus of true Oscian breed , Sarmentus , who was never freed , But ran ...
... themes my fancy raise ! Two combatants , who scorn to yield The noisy , tongue - disputed field , Sarmentus and Cicirrus , claim A poet's tribute to their fame ; Cicirrus of true Oscian breed , Sarmentus , who was never freed , But ran ...
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... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me if you can , what pow'r maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
... themes like these employ the poet's tongue , I hear as mute as if a syren sung . Or tell me if you can , what pow'r maintains A Briton's scorn of arbitrary chains ? That were a theme might animate the dead , And move the lips of poets ...
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... theme , Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse , Lost without thee th ' ennobling pow'rs of verse , Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires ; Place me where winter breathes its keenest ...
... theme , Genius is thine , and thou art fancy's nurse , Lost without thee th ' ennobling pow'rs of verse , Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires ; Place me where winter breathes its keenest ...
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Aristaus beauty beneath bids blest boast breath call'd cause charms Cowper dark delight design'd divine dream e'er earth ease ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fancy fear feel fire flow'rs folly fool form'd frown give glory grace hand happy hast heart heav'n heav'nly honour hope hour int'rest John Gilpin labour land light live lyre mankind mercy mind Molière muse nature never night nymph o'er once palæstra peace pity pleasure poet poet's pow'r praise pray'r pride prize proud prove red vengeance rest sacred sapience scene scorn seem'd shepherd's rod shine sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound stamp'd stand stream sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thou thought toil tongue trifler truth Twas ultrà Unwin verse Vincent Bourne virtue Voyages pointing waste wind wisdom worth youth