Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin and other poemsBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... wonder and praise , I cry , who is worthy as Thou ! I can only be silent and gaze : ' Tis all that is left to me now . Oh glory in which I am lost , Too deep for the plummet of thought ; On an ocean of Deity toss'd , I am swallow'd , I ...
... wonder and praise , I cry , who is worthy as Thou ! I can only be silent and gaze : ' Tis all that is left to me now . Oh glory in which I am lost , Too deep for the plummet of thought ; On an ocean of Deity toss'd , I am swallow'd , I ...
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... wonder then 46 , that health and virtue , gifts 750 43 One to destroy is murder by the law , And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe . To murder thousands takes a specious name . Young . Satire vii . Where little villains must submit to ...
... wonder then 46 , that health and virtue , gifts 750 43 One to destroy is murder by the law , And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe . To murder thousands takes a specious name . Young . Satire vii . Where little villains must submit to ...
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... wonder if discharged into the world They shame their shooters with a random flight , Their points obtuse , and feathers drunk with wine . Well may the church wage unsuccessful war With such artillery arm'd . Vice parries wide The ...
... wonder if discharged into the world They shame their shooters with a random flight , Their points obtuse , and feathers drunk with wine . Well may the church wage unsuccessful war With such artillery arm'd . Vice parries wide The ...
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... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unsuspicious nights And slumbers unalarm'd . Now ere you sleep See that your polish'd arms be primed with care , 560 565 And drop the night - bolt ...
... wonder heard With doubtful credit , told to frighten babes . But farewell now to unsuspicious nights And slumbers unalarm'd . Now ere you sleep See that your polish'd arms be primed with care , 560 565 And drop the night - bolt ...
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... ripe an age As twice seven years , his beauties had then first Engaged my wonder , and admiring still And still admiring , with regret supposed 710 715 The joy half lost because not sooner found . Thee B. IV . 189 THE TASK .
... ripe an age As twice seven years , his beauties had then first Engaged my wonder , and admiring still And still admiring , with regret supposed 710 715 The joy half lost because not sooner found . Thee B. IV . 189 THE TASK .
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beauty beneath bliss boast breath cause charms Cowper dear deep delight distant divine divine simplicity dream Dunciad earth ease fair fame fancy fear feel Fête champêtre flower folly form'd frown glory grace grove hand happy heart heaven honour human John Gilpin Julius Cæsar King L'Allegro labour less live Lord lost Mighty winds mind nature Nature's Nebaioth never night o'er once pain peace pleased pleasure Pope praise proud prove pure repose rove rude sacred Satire Satire iv Satire vi scene scorn secret fire seek shades shine sighs sight silent skies sleep smile Soame Jenyns song Sonnet 18 soon sorrow soul Spleen stream sweet task taste thee theme thine things thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom wonder worth
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Página 306 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands And eke with all his might.
Página 98 - 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 80 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 97 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 235 - 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. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 261 - Come then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy .' It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Página 129 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 305 - 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 259 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us-! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 309 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away, That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.