Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... plays upon its face ; The sportive light , uncertain where it falls , Now strikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . A NEW EDITION . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD , BY T. BENSLEY , BOLT COURT , FLEET ...
... plays upon its face ; The sportive light , uncertain where it falls , Now strikes the roof , now flashes on the walls . A NEW EDITION . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD , BY T. BENSLEY , BOLT COURT , FLEET ...
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... Playing , at beat of drum , their martial pranks , Should'ring and standing as if stuck to stone , While condescending majesty looks on ; If monarchy consist in such base things , Sighing , I say again , I pity kings ! To be suspected ...
... Playing , at beat of drum , their martial pranks , Should'ring and standing as if stuck to stone , While condescending majesty looks on ; If monarchy consist in such base things , Sighing , I say again , I pity kings ! To be suspected ...
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... play ) To win no praise when well - wrought plans pre- vail , But to be rudely censur'd when they fail ; To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; If he indulge a cultivated taste , His gall'ries ...
... play ) To win no praise when well - wrought plans pre- vail , But to be rudely censur'd when they fail ; To doubt the love his fav'rites may pretend , And in reality to find no friend ; If he indulge a cultivated taste , His gall'ries ...
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... a cause , e , I grant , An English poet's privilege to rant ; But is not freedom - at least , is not our's , To apt to play the wanton with her pow'rs , I 1 Grow freakish , and , o'erleaping ev'ry mound , Spread 16 TABLE TALK . TABLE TALK ...
... a cause , e , I grant , An English poet's privilege to rant ; But is not freedom - at least , is not our's , To apt to play the wanton with her pow'rs , I 1 Grow freakish , and , o'erleaping ev'ry mound , Spread 16 TABLE TALK . TABLE TALK ...
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... play with syllables , and sport in song . A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five , Where discipline helps op'ning buds of sense , And makes his pupils proud with silver I was a poet too : but ...
... play with syllables , and sport in song . A. At Westminster , where little poets strive To set a distich upon six and five , Where discipline helps op'ning buds of sense , And makes his pupils proud with silver I was a poet too : but ...
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