The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... dream too late . Oh ! if Servility with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to please ; If smooth Dissimulation , skill'd to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers ...
... dream too late . Oh ! if Servility with supple knees , Whose trade it is to smile , to crouch , to please ; If smooth Dissimulation , skill'd to grace A devil's purpose with an angel's face ; If smiling peeresses , and simpering peers ...
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... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares ; They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
... dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if the world and they were hand and glove . Leave kingly backs to cope with kingly cares ; They have their weight to carry , subjects theirs ; Poets ...
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... for freedom undertake The noblest cause mankind can have at stake : Religion , virtue , truth , whate'er we call A blessing - freedom is the pledge of all . VOL . I. D O Liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's TABLE TALK . 29.
... for freedom undertake The noblest cause mankind can have at stake : Religion , virtue , truth , whate'er we call A blessing - freedom is the pledge of all . VOL . I. D O Liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's TABLE TALK . 29.
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Including Translations ... O Liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from ...
Including Translations ... O Liberty ! the prisoner's pleasing dream , The poet's muse , his passion , and his theme ; Genius is thine , and thou art Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee the ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from ...
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... dream ; Yours real and pernicious in the ' extreme . What then ! —are appetites and lusts laid down With the same ease that man puts on his gown ? Will avarice and concupiscence give place , Charm'd by the sounds - Your Reverence , or ...
... dream ; Yours real and pernicious in the ' extreme . What then ! —are appetites and lusts laid down With the same ease that man puts on his gown ? Will avarice and concupiscence give place , Charm'd by the sounds - Your Reverence , or ...
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beams beneath bids blasphemy bless'd bliss blooming groves boast BODHAM breast call'd charms Chiswick courser Cowper dear declension deeds delight design'd divine dream e'en earth Eartham Edmonton eyes fair fancy fear feel fire flowers folly form'd frown Gilpin give glory God's grace hand happy heart Heaven heavenly hope hour John Gilpin labour land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mercy mind Muse Nature never night o'er Olney once Parnassian pass'd peace pharisee pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove racter Rome sacred scene scorn scorn'd Scripture seem'd shine sight skies smile song SONNET soon sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste tears telescopic eye thee theme thine thou hast thought thousand toil tongue trifler true truth Twas Unwin verse virtue waste Whate'er wild WILLIAM COWPER wisdom zeal