The Poetical Works of William Cowper: Of the Inner Temple, Esq, 第 2 巻Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson, 1806 |
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... His hard condition with severe constraint Binds all his faculties , forbids all growth Of wisdom , proves a school , in which he learns , Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean self - attachment 28 BOOK I. THE TASK .
... His hard condition with severe constraint Binds all his faculties , forbids all growth Of wisdom , proves a school , in which he learns , Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean self - attachment 28 BOOK I. THE TASK .
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... wisdom short Of man's occasions , when in him reside Grace , knowledge , comfort — an unfathomed store ? How oft , when Paul has served us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully , preached ! Men that , if now alive , would sit ...
... wisdom short Of man's occasions , when in him reside Grace , knowledge , comfort — an unfathomed store ? How oft , when Paul has served us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully , preached ! Men that , if now alive , would sit ...
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... wisdom's sake ; Nor can example hurt them : what they see Of vice in others but enhancing more The charms of virtue in their just esteem . If such escape contagion , and emerge Pure from so foul a pool to shine abroad , * Ben'et Coll ...
... wisdom's sake ; Nor can example hurt them : what they see Of vice in others but enhancing more The charms of virtue in their just esteem . If such escape contagion , and emerge Pure from so foul a pool to shine abroad , * Ben'et Coll ...
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... wisdom , when the fault Is obstinate , and cure beyond our reach . Domestic happiness , thou only bliss Of Paradise , that hast survived the fall ! Though few now taste thee unimpaired and pure , Or tasting long enjoy thee ! too infirm ...
... wisdom , when the fault Is obstinate , and cure beyond our reach . Domestic happiness , thou only bliss Of Paradise , that hast survived the fall ! Though few now taste thee unimpaired and pure , Or tasting long enjoy thee ! too infirm ...
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... wisdom well , And prove it in the infallible result So hollow and so false I feel my heart Dissolve in pity , and account the learned , If this be learning , most of all deceived . Great crimes alarm the conscience , but it sleeps While ...
... wisdom well , And prove it in the infallible result So hollow and so false I feel my heart Dissolve in pity , and account the learned , If this be learning , most of all deceived . Great crimes alarm the conscience , but it sleeps While ...
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48 ページ - Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
51 ページ - 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.
37 ページ - 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 earned.
78 ページ - In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed ; and, viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
160 ページ - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
189 ページ - 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.
13 ページ - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and, chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
12 ページ - Stand, never overlook'd our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
103 ページ - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
50 ページ - I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.