Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ...J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1793 - 359 páginas |
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... and wide the wat'ry waste For fight of fhip from England . Ev'ry speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thee pale With conflict of contending hopes and fears . But comes at last the dull and dusky eve , D 2 BOOK I. 35 THE SOFA .
... and wide the wat'ry waste For fight of fhip from England . Ev'ry speck Seen in the dim horizon turns thee pale With conflict of contending hopes and fears . But comes at last the dull and dusky eve , D 2 BOOK I. 35 THE SOFA .
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... hopes and richer fruits than your's . But , though true worth and virtue in the mild And genial foil of cultivated life Thrive moft , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in cities oft : in proud and gay And gain - devoted cities ...
... hopes and richer fruits than your's . But , though true worth and virtue in the mild And genial foil of cultivated life Thrive moft , and may perhaps thrive only there , Yet not in cities oft : in proud and gay And gain - devoted cities ...
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... hopes and fears Dreams , empty dreams . The million flit as gay As if created only like the fly , That spreads his motley wings in th ' eye of noon , To fport their feason , and be feen no more . The reft are fober dreamers , grave and ...
... hopes and fears Dreams , empty dreams . The million flit as gay As if created only like the fly , That spreads his motley wings in th ' eye of noon , To fport their feason , and be feen no more . The reft are fober dreamers , grave and ...
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... hopes before the blaze of day . To raife the prickly and green - coated gourd , So grateful to the palate , and when rare So coveted , else base and difefteem'd- Food for the vulgar merely - is an art That toiling ages have but juft ...
... hopes before the blaze of day . To raife the prickly and green - coated gourd , So grateful to the palate , and when rare So coveted , else base and difefteem'd- Food for the vulgar merely - is an art That toiling ages have but juft ...
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... hopes , requires difcreet delay . Experience , flow preceptrefs , teaching oft The way to glory by mifcarriage foul , Must prompt him , and admonish how to catch Th ' aufpicious moment , when the temper'd heat , Friendly to vital motion ...
... hopes , requires difcreet delay . Experience , flow preceptrefs , teaching oft The way to glory by mifcarriage foul , Must prompt him , and admonish how to catch Th ' aufpicious moment , when the temper'd heat , Friendly to vital motion ...
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Página 46 - 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 47 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
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