Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... laws Fires him at once in freedom's glorious cause . Thus proud prerogative , not much rever'd , Is seldom felt , though sometimes seen and heard ; And in his cage , like parrot fine and gay , Is kept , to strut , look big , and talk ...
... laws Fires him at once in freedom's glorious cause . Thus proud prerogative , not much rever'd , Is seldom felt , though sometimes seen and heard ; And in his cage , like parrot fine and gay , Is kept , to strut , look big , and talk ...
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... laws apply the needful curb To guard the peace that riot would disturb ; And liberty , preserv'd from wild excess , Shall raise no feuds for armies to suppress . When tumult lately burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a ...
... laws apply the needful curb To guard the peace that riot would disturb ; And liberty , preserv'd from wild excess , Shall raise no feuds for armies to suppress . When tumult lately burst his prison door , And set plebeian thousands in a ...
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... law . His speech , his form , his action , full of grace , And all his country beaming in his face , He stood , as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand . No sycophant or slave , that dar'd oppose Her sacred ...
... law . His speech , his form , his action , full of grace , And all his country beaming in his face , He stood , as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand . No sycophant or slave , that dar'd oppose Her sacred ...
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... laws , Bespeaks a land , once christian , fall'n , and lost In all that wars against that title most ; What follows next let cities of great name , And regions long since desolate , proclaim . Nineveh , Babylon , and ancient Rome ...
... laws , Bespeaks a land , once christian , fall'n , and lost In all that wars against that title most ; What follows next let cities of great name , And regions long since desolate , proclaim . Nineveh , Babylon , and ancient Rome ...
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... laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene To throw his dark displeasure o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in ...
... laws Unchangeably connected with its cause ) ; But Providence himself will intervene To throw his dark displeasure o'er the scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in ...
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