The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence.", 第 7 巻Saunders and Otley, 1835 |
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... mean to tread . I feel myself at large , Courageous , and refresh'd for future toil , If toil awaits me , or if dangers new . Since pulpits fail , and sounding boards reflect Most part an empty ineffectual sound , What chance that I ...
... mean to tread . I feel myself at large , Courageous , and refresh'd for future toil , If toil awaits me , or if dangers new . Since pulpits fail , and sounding boards reflect Most part an empty ineffectual sound , What chance that I ...
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... mean hand , and asks the touch of taste . Here also grateful mixture of well match'd And sorted hues , ( each giving each relief , And by contrasted beauty shining more , ) Is needful . Strength may wield the ponderous spade , May turn ...
... mean hand , and asks the touch of taste . Here also grateful mixture of well match'd And sorted hues , ( each giving each relief , And by contrasted beauty shining more , ) Is needful . Strength may wield the ponderous spade , May turn ...
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... means to improve it , friendship , peace , No loose or wanton , though a wandering , muse , And constant occupation without care . Thus blest I draw a picture of that bliss ; Hopeless indeed , that dissipated minds , And profligate ...
... means to improve it , friendship , peace , No loose or wanton , though a wandering , muse , And constant occupation without care . Thus blest I draw a picture of that bliss ; Hopeless indeed , that dissipated minds , And profligate ...
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... mean the man who , when the distant poor Need help , denies them nothing but his name . But poverty with most , who whimper forth Their long complaints , is self - inflicted woe ; The effect of laziness or sottish waste . Now goes the ...
... mean the man who , when the distant poor Need help , denies them nothing but his name . But poverty with most , who whimper forth Their long complaints , is self - inflicted woe ; The effect of laziness or sottish waste . Now goes the ...
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... means of life , And they that never pass their brick wall bounds , To range the fields and treat their lungs with air , Yet feel the burning instinct : over head Suspend their crazy boxes , planted thick , And water'd duly . There the ...
... means of life , And they that never pass their brick wall bounds , To range the fields and treat their lungs with air , Yet feel the burning instinct : over head Suspend their crazy boxes , planted thick , And water'd duly . There the ...
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38 ページ - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th
226 ページ - as loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin, who but he! his fame soon spread around; "He carries weight! He rides a race! "Tis for a thousand pound!
249 ページ - Bleeding from the Roman rods, Sought, with an indignant mien, Counsel of her country's gods ; Sage...
351 ページ - Though duly from my hand he took His pittance every night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw ; Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his maw. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins' russet peel, And, when his juicy salads fail'd, Sliced carrot pleased him well.
184 ページ - Then shifting his side, as a lawyer knows how, He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes, But what were his arguments few people know, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed, with a grave solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or but, — That whenever the Nose put his spectacles on, By daylight or candlelight — Eyes should be shut.
225 ページ - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, at last it flew away. Then might all people well discern the bottles he had slung; A bottle swinging at each side, as hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, up flew the windows all, And every soul cried out,
223 ページ - Where they did all get in ; Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin.
180 ページ - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
66 ページ - The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge ; and the bents And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half-petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness.
99 ページ - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave. Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.