Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1800 |
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... must abridge The noble sweep of all their privilege ; Gives liberty the last , the mortal shock ; Slips the slave's collar on , and snaps the lock . A. Such lofty strains embellish what Mean you teach , TABLE TALK . 25.
... must abridge The noble sweep of all their privilege ; Gives liberty the last , the mortal shock ; Slips the slave's collar on , and snaps the lock . A. Such lofty strains embellish what Mean you teach , TABLE TALK . 25.
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... teach , you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If ...
... teach , you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel . If ...
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... teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstasy , unmanacled by form , Not prompted , as in our degenʼrate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise , Was natural as ...
... teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstasy , unmanacled by form , Not prompted , as in our degenʼrate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise , Was natural as ...
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... ye careless and supine , Counsel and caution from a voice like mine ! Truths , that the theorists could never reach , And observation taught me , I would teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy fills , Musical Progress of Error.
... ye careless and supine , Counsel and caution from a voice like mine ! Truths , that the theorists could never reach , And observation taught me , I would teach . Not all , whose eloquence the fancy fills , Musical Progress of Error.
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... , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the closet of young innocence , And teach her , unexperient'd yet and green , To scribble as you scribbled at fifteen ; ร Who , kindling a combustion of desire , With some THE PROGRESS OF ERROR .
... , under virtue's fair pretence , Steal to the closet of young innocence , And teach her , unexperient'd yet and green , To scribble as you scribbled at fifteen ; ร Who , kindling a combustion of desire , With some THE PROGRESS OF ERROR .
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