Dissolve in pity, and account the learn'd, If this be learning, most of all deceived. Great crimes alarm the conscience, but it sleeps While thoughtful man is plausibly amused, " Defend me therefore, common sense," say I, " From reveries so airy, from... The Poems of William Cowper - الصفحة 288بواسطة William Cowper - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 741عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| William Cowper - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...While thoughtful man is plaufibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common fenfe, fay I, . From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, . And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...While thoughtful man is plaufibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common fenfc, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing oldin drawing nothing up ? 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline... | |
| William Cowper - 1788 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...plaufibly amus'd. Defend me therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...While thoughtful man is plaufibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...While thoughtful man is plaulibly amus'd. [Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up! • 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, £001t III. THIGARn r. N. 7J Terribly arch'd and... | |
| William Cowper - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...While thoughtful man is plaufibly amns'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 'Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...While thoughtful man is plaufibly amus'd. Defend me, therefore, common fenfe, fay I, From reveries fo airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! Twere well, fays one fage erudite, profound, Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nofe, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...seeming wisdom well, And prove it in th' infallible result So hollow and so false—I feel my heart Dissolve in pity, and account the learn'd, if this be learning, most of all deceiv'd. Great crimes alarm the conscience, but it slecjiWhile thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd.... | |
| 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...learn'd, While thoughtful man is plausibly amus'd. Great crimes alarm the conscience, but it sleeps 185 Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries...wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up ! 190 'Twere well, says one sage erudite, profound. Terribly arch'd and aquiline his nose, And overbuilt... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...seeming wisdom well, And prove it in th' infallible result So hollow and so false—I feel my heart Dissolve in pity, and account the learn'd, If this be learning, most of all deceiv'd. Great crimes alarm the conscience, but it sleeps While thoughtful man is plausibly anius'd.... | |
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