Poems ..., Volum 1W. Collins, 1834 - 564 sider |
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... trifler by . Both baby - featured , and of infant size , Viewed from a distance , and with heedless eyes , Folly and Innocence are so alike , The diff'rence , though essential , fails to strike . Yet Folly ever has a vacant stare , A ...
... trifler by . Both baby - featured , and of infant size , Viewed from a distance , and with heedless eyes , Folly and Innocence are so alike , The diff'rence , though essential , fails to strike . Yet Folly ever has a vacant stare , A ...
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... trifler dreams himself alone , Frames many a purpose , and God works his own . States thrive and wither as moons wax and wane , E'en as his will and his decrees ordain : While honour , virtue , piety , bear sway ,, They flourish ; and ...
... trifler dreams himself alone , Frames many a purpose , and God works his own . States thrive and wither as moons wax and wane , E'en as his will and his decrees ordain : While honour , virtue , piety , bear sway ,, They flourish ; and ...
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... reproach an age , Whom all the vanities they scorned engage ! And His , that seraphs tremble at , is hung Disgracefully on every trifler's tongue , Or serves the champion in forensic war To flourish and EXPOSTULATION . 149.
... reproach an age , Whom all the vanities they scorned engage ! And His , that seraphs tremble at , is hung Disgracefully on every trifler's tongue , Or serves the champion in forensic war To flourish and EXPOSTULATION . 149.
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... trifler with his boasted skill Toils much , and is a solemn trifler still : Blind was he born , and his misguided eyes Grown dim in trifling studies , blind he dies . Self - knowledge truly learned of course implies The rich possession ...
... trifler with his boasted skill Toils much , and is a solemn trifler still : Blind was he born , and his misguided eyes Grown dim in trifling studies , blind he dies . Self - knowledge truly learned of course implies The rich possession ...
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... trifler under rigorous sway , But gives it usefulness unknown before , And , purifying makes it shine the more . A Christian's wit is inoffensive light , A beam that aids , but never grieves the sight ; Vigorous in age as in the flush ...
... trifler under rigorous sway , But gives it usefulness unknown before , And , purifying makes it shine the more . A Christian's wit is inoffensive light , A beam that aids , but never grieves the sight ; Vigorous in age as in the flush ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath bids blank verse blest boast breath cause charms Cowper death deem delight distant divine dread dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fatal egg fear feel fire flowers folly frown give glory grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope human JOHN GILPIN JOSEPH HILL labour land light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once peace perhaps PINE-APPLE pity pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seems shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound stand stream sweet task taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thought thousand toil tongue touch trifler truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom woes worth youth