The Poetical Works of William CowperH.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... delight , her king ? Pours she not all her choicest fruits abroad , Her sweetest flowers , her aromatic gums , Disclosing paradise where'er he treads ? She quakes at his approach . Her hollow womb Conceiving thunders , through a ...
... delight , her king ? Pours she not all her choicest fruits abroad , Her sweetest flowers , her aromatic gums , Disclosing paradise where'er he treads ? She quakes at his approach . Her hollow womb Conceiving thunders , through a ...
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... delight before , Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite , So these their merry , miserable night . Pope . Moral Essays . Epist . ii . 235 . 26 What though the dome be wanting , whose ...
... delight before , Reduced to feign it when they give no more : As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite , So these their merry , miserable night . Pope . Moral Essays . Epist . ii . 235 . 26 What though the dome be wanting , whose ...
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... delight . Par . Lost , ix . 445 . 2 If chance with nymph - like step fair virgin pass , What pleasing seem'd , for her now pleases more , She most , and in her look sums all delight ; Such pleasure took the serpent to behold This ...
... delight . Par . Lost , ix . 445 . 2 If chance with nymph - like step fair virgin pass , What pleasing seem'd , for her now pleases more , She most , and in her look sums all delight ; Such pleasure took the serpent to behold This ...
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... delight To fill with riot and defile with blood . Should some contagion kind to the poor brutes We persecute ... Delights which who would leave , that has a heart By thy pure stream , or in thy waving shade We court fair wisdom , that ...
... delight To fill with riot and defile with blood . Should some contagion kind to the poor brutes We persecute ... Delights which who would leave , that has a heart By thy pure stream , or in thy waving shade We court fair wisdom , that ...
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... Delightful industry enjoyed at home , 355 And nature in her cultivated trim 17 The allusion is to one of Gay's fables , which in the last generation most children knew by heart . In how different a spirit is Byron's epitaph on his dog ...
... Delightful industry enjoyed at home , 355 And nature in her cultivated trim 17 The allusion is to one of Gay's fables , which in the last generation most children knew by heart . In how different a spirit is Byron's epitaph on his dog ...
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ADAM ANGEL art thou Avernus beasts beauty BEELZEBUB Behold beneath birds boast bosom breath bright call'd charms CHERUBIM creature dear death delight divine dost thou dread dream earth eternal eyes fair falchions fame fear feel fire FLESH flowers form'd fruit glory GOD THE FATHER gold grace hand happy heard heart heaven hell Hence honour human Julius Cæsar labour light live Lord lost LUCIFER mighty mind nature Nebaioth never nymph o'er once pain peace pleasure Portrait praise proud prove SATAN Satire vi scene seat seem'd SERPENT shine sigh sight skies smile song soon soul sound speak spirit STANDARD LIBRARY stars stream sweet taste tears thee thine things thou art thou hast toil truth Twas Vincent Bourne virtue voice VOLAN Vols WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wind wings wisdom wish wonder worth