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... wise . It is not seemly , nor of good report , That she is slack in discipline ; more prompt T'avenge than to prevent the breach of law ; That she is rigid in denouncing death On petty robbers , and indulges life And liberty , and oft ...
... wise . It is not seemly , nor of good report , That she is slack in discipline ; more prompt T'avenge than to prevent the breach of law ; That she is rigid in denouncing death On petty robbers , and indulges life And liberty , and oft ...
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... wise of the Supreme . Did not his eye rule all things , and intend The least of our concerns ( since from the least The greatest oft originate ; ) could chance Find place in his dominion , or dispose One lawless particle to thwart his ...
... wise of the Supreme . Did not his eye rule all things , and intend The least of our concerns ( since from the least The greatest oft originate ; ) could chance Find place in his dominion , or dispose One lawless particle to thwart his ...
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... wise ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit pleasure hopeless of success ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood , and devote old age To sports , which only childhood could excuse . There they are ...
... wise ; There form connexions , but acquire no friend ; Solicit pleasure hopeless of success ; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood , and devote old age To sports , which only childhood could excuse . There they are ...
Side 66
... wise . - Justification of my censures . - Divine illumination necessary to the most expert philosopher . - The question , What is truth ? answered by other questions . - Domestic hap- piness addressed again . - Few lovers of the country ...
... wise . - Justification of my censures . - Divine illumination necessary to the most expert philosopher . - The question , What is truth ? answered by other questions . - Domestic hap- piness addressed again . - Few lovers of the country ...
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... wise , And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . Some write a narrative of wars , and feats Of heroes little known ; and call the rant A history describe the man , of whom : His own coevals took but little note , And paint his person ...
... wise , And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . Some write a narrative of wars , and feats Of heroes little known ; and call the rant A history describe the man , of whom : His own coevals took but little note , And paint his person ...
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Poems: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, Volum 2 William Cowper Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1852 |
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BARTOW beauty beneath betimes boast BOOK breath cause charge charms clime death deems delights distant divine dread dream e'en earth ease fair fame fancy fear feed feel field of glory flower folly fountain of eternal frown fruits give glory grace grave groves hand happy heart Heaven honour Hosanna human JOSEPH HILL king labour less live lost lyre mercy Mighty winds mind mischief muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymphs o'er once peace perhaps play pleasure plebeian praise prize proud prove rapture riddance rude rural sacred scene schools scorn seek seems shade shine sight slaves sleep sloth smile smooth Sofa song soon soul sound spare sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art toil touch trembling truth Twas virtue weary WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wise wonder worth youth
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Side 50 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Side 178 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Side 37 - Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man.
Side 162 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Side 150 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till Persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven.
Side 161 - And, seeking grace to improve the prize they hold, Would urge a wiser suit than asking more The night was winter in his roughest mood ; The morning sharp and clear. But now at noon Upon the southern side of the slant hills, And where the woods fence off the northern blast, The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Side 44 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deform'd With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Side 161 - Pleased with his solitude, and flitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence.
Side 100 - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
Side 151 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.