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... hears louder panegyrics . He has the advantage , growing scarcer every day , of being intelligible ; and if we look in vain for splendour , we find sense . Some slight oddities of personal character , not to mention graver defects of ...
... hears louder panegyrics . He has the advantage , growing scarcer every day , of being intelligible ; and if we look in vain for splendour , we find sense . Some slight oddities of personal character , not to mention graver defects of ...
Side 21
... , 1 Stark was used by our earlier writers to give intensity to an expression . Sidney has Cowper ' act phrase . We still hear of people who are " stark mad . ' Then grace the bony phantom in their stead With the TABLE TALK . 21.
... , 1 Stark was used by our earlier writers to give intensity to an expression . Sidney has Cowper ' act phrase . We still hear of people who are " stark mad . ' Then grace the bony phantom in their stead With the TABLE TALK . 21.
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... hear it call'd extravagance and waste , If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humble and confined the sphere , Happy the state that has not these to fear . A. Thus men whose ...
... hear it call'd extravagance and waste , If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humble and confined the sphere , Happy the state that has not these to fear . A. Thus men whose ...
Side 25
... 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 cast in lead . B. The cause , tho ' worth the ...
... 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 cast in lead . B. The cause , tho ' worth the ...
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... hears the thunder ere the tempest lowers , And , arm'd with strength surpassing human powers , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his soul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful name Of prophet and ...
... hears the thunder ere the tempest lowers , And , arm'd with strength surpassing human powers , Seizes events as yet unknown to man , And darts his soul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful name Of prophet and ...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, Critical ..., Volum 2 William Cowper,George Gilfillan Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1854 |
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beauty beneath bids blest boast breath call'd cause charms Cowper delight design'd divine dread 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 John Gilpin labour land light live lyre mankind mercy mind Molière muse nature Nebaioth never night o'er once palæstra peace pleasure poet poet's pow'r praise pray'r pride proud prove red vengeance rest rude 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 Unwin verse vex'd Vincent Bourne virtue Voyages pointing waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom worth youth