The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the AuthorBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... wisdom infinite ; All that I have I give thee ; and then see All contrarieties unite in thee ; For Thou hast join'd them , taking up our woe , And pouring out thy bliss on worms below , By filling with thy grace and love divine A gulf ...
... wisdom infinite ; All that I have I give thee ; and then see All contrarieties unite in thee ; For Thou hast join'd them , taking up our woe , And pouring out thy bliss on worms below , By filling with thy grace and love divine A gulf ...
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... Wisdom infinite ! of mine : Wishing is but Inclination Quarreling with thy decrees ; Wayward nature finds the occasion , - ' Tis her folly and disease . Night , with its sublime enjoyments , Now no longer will I choose ; Nor the day ...
... Wisdom infinite ! of mine : Wishing is but Inclination Quarreling with thy decrees ; Wayward nature finds the occasion , - ' Tis her folly and disease . Night , with its sublime enjoyments , Now no longer will I choose ; Nor the day ...
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... wisdom , proves a school in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean self - attachment , and scarce aught beside . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world Where it ...
... wisdom , proves a school in which he learns Sly circumvention , unrelenting hate , Mean self - attachment , and scarce aught beside . Thus fare the shivering natives of the north , And thus the rangers of the western world Where it ...
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... , and from heights sublime 11 Go , teach eternal wisdom how to rule , Then drop into thyself and be a fool . Pope . Essay on Man , ii . 29 . 210 215 Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes 104 COWPER'S POEMS . 11.
... , and from heights sublime 11 Go , teach eternal wisdom how to rule , Then drop into thyself and be a fool . Pope . Essay on Man , ii . 29 . 210 215 Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes 104 COWPER'S POEMS . 11.
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... wisdom short Of man's occasions , when in Him reside Grace , knowledge , comfort , an unfathom'd store ? How oft when Paul has served us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully preach'd ! 530 535 540 Men that , if now alive , would ...
... wisdom short Of man's occasions , when in Him reside Grace , knowledge , comfort , an unfathom'd store ? How oft when Paul has served us with a text , Has Epictetus , Plato , Tully preach'd ! 530 535 540 Men that , if now alive , would ...
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Página 88 - 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.
Página 302 - 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." Said John, — " It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Página 249 - 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 229 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Página 163 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Página 303 - ... off with all his might, as he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away went Gilpin's hat and wig : He lost them sooner than at first; — for why? — they were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw her husband posting down Into the country far away, she...
Página 154 - 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.
Página 70 - 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 125 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 87 - 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.