Poems by William Cowper ...J. Johnson and Company, 1811 |
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... Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , 510 I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse TABLE TALK . 27.
... Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , 510 I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse TABLE TALK . 27.
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... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , 530 All birks and braes , though he was never there ...
... sounds will be ; But such mere quarter - strokes are not for me . From him who rears a poem lank and long , To him who strains his all into a song ; Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , 530 All birks and braes , though he was never there ...
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... sounds , though sweet and well com- bin'd , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave vice and folly unsubdu'd behind . 80 Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the ...
... sounds , though sweet and well com- bin'd , And lenient as soft opiates to the mind , Leave vice and folly unsubdu'd behind . 80 Gray dawn appears ; the sportsman and his train Speckle the bosom of the distant plain ; ' Tis he , the ...
الصفحة 46
... sounds - Your Rev'rence , or Your Grace ? No , but his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last What atheists call him - a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave . 1 Oh ...
... sounds - Your Rev'rence , or Your Grace ? No , but his own engagement binds him fast ; Or , if it does not , brands him to the last What atheists call him - a designing knave , A mere church juggler , hypocrite , and slave . 1 Oh ...
الصفحة 93
... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all : Kings are invited , and would kings obey , 351 No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless ...
... Sounds for the poor , but sounds alike for all : Kings are invited , and would kings obey , 351 No slaves on earth more welcome were than they : But royalty , nobility , and state , Are such a dead preponderating weight , That endless ...
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