The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of ThomsonLippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851 - 537 páginas |
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... perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year , Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's ...
... perhaps a well - directed aim , Who seek it in his climate and his frame . Liberal in all things else , yet Nature here With stern severity deals out the year , Winter invades the spring , and often pours A chilling flood on summer's ...
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... Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ; Or , having whelped a prologue with great pains ; Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdashed with many a stroke- An art ...
... Perhaps some bonny Caledonian air , All birks and braes , though he was never there ; Or , having whelped a prologue with great pains ; Feels himself spent , and fumbles for his brains ; A prologue interdashed with many a stroke- An art ...
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... perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep of every flock Resort to this example as a rock ; There stand , and justify the foul abuse Of sabbath - hours with plausible excuse ? If apostolic gravity be free To play the fool on ...
... perhaps as sweet . Will not the sickliest sheep of every flock Resort to this example as a rock ; There stand , and justify the foul abuse Of sabbath - hours with plausible excuse ? If apostolic gravity be free To play the fool on ...
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... perhaps creative art , With power surpassing theirs , performed her part , Might give more life to marble , or might fill The glowing tablets with a juster skill , Might shine in fable , and grace idle themes With all th ' embroidery of ...
... perhaps creative art , With power surpassing theirs , performed her part , Might give more life to marble , or might fill The glowing tablets with a juster skill , Might shine in fable , and grace idle themes With all th ' embroidery of ...
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... perhaps thy salutary strain : Humility is gentle , apt to learn , Speak but the word , will listen and return . Alas , not so ! the poorest of the flock Are proud , and set their faces as a rock ; Denied that earthly opulence they ...
... perhaps thy salutary strain : Humility is gentle , apt to learn , Speak but the word , will listen and return . Alas , not so ! the poorest of the flock Are proud , and set their faces as a rock ; Denied that earthly opulence they ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æsop Beau marked beauty beneath better blessing boast cause charms Christian COWPER dear cousin DEAR FRIEND death delight divine dream e'en earth ease eyes fair faith fancy favour fear feel flowers folly give glory grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven honour hope hour human Huntingdon John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL labour LADY least less live Lord lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never numbers nymph o'er Olney once pain peace perhaps pleased pleasure poet poor praise prove reason rest scene scorn Scripture seems shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound sure sweet taste thee theme thine thing thou thought toil true truth Twas verse Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wind wisdom wish wonder worth youth
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Página 61 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 123 - Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul!) Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brushed and neat, He manfully did throw.
Página 130 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 90 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Página 150 - But ah ! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary ! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary ! W.
Página 94 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 87 - 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.
Página 110 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more.
Página 44 - Of blackening pines, aye waving to and fro, Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where this valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.
Página 131 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.