The Works of William Cowper, Volume 5H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... leaves his dungeon . Not that he became a cynic or an ascetic ; —a heart filled with love to God will assuredly breathe benevolence But the turn of his temper inclining him to rural life , he indulged it , and the providence of God ...
... leaves his dungeon . Not that he became a cynic or an ascetic ; —a heart filled with love to God will assuredly breathe benevolence But the turn of his temper inclining him to rural life , he indulged it , and the providence of God ...
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... leave them as you like , for my purpose is already served . They have amused me , and I have no farther demand upon them . " On my return , Mr. Cowper presented me with these translations , to which he added the Letter to a Protestant ...
... leave them as you like , for my purpose is already served . They have amused me , and I have no farther demand upon them . " On my return , Mr. Cowper presented me with these translations , to which he added the Letter to a Protestant ...
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... leaving her at New Burns . On her endeavouring to conceal her Grief at parting Hope , like the short lived ray . All - worshipp'd Gold , thou mighty mystery ! Written in a fit of illness . To Delia . 1755 . 17 · 17 19 19 20 21 • 23 24 ...
... leaving her at New Burns . On her endeavouring to conceal her Grief at parting Hope , like the short lived ray . All - worshipp'd Gold , thou mighty mystery ! Written in a fit of illness . To Delia . 1755 . 17 · 17 19 19 20 21 • 23 24 ...
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... leave The multitude behind ! Then ask ye , from what cause on earth Virtues like these derive their birth ? Deriv'd from Heaven alone , Full on that favour'd breast they shine , Where faith and resignation join To call the blessing down ...
... leave The multitude behind ! Then ask ye , from what cause on earth Virtues like these derive their birth ? Deriv'd from Heaven alone , Full on that favour'd breast they shine , Where faith and resignation join To call the blessing down ...
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... leave your apish tricks , And change your girlish airs , For ombre , snuff , and politics , Those joys that suit your years ; No patches can lost youth recall , Nor whitewash prop a tumbling wall , With my fa , la , la . Drayton , March ...
... leave your apish tricks , And change your girlish airs , For ombre , snuff , and politics , Those joys that suit your years ; No patches can lost youth recall , Nor whitewash prop a tumbling wall , With my fa , la , la . Drayton , March ...
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Page 62 - A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the sun ; It gives a light to every age — It gives, but borrows none.
Page 242 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ; Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 253 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent:— Did you admire my lamp...
Page 53 - HARK, my soul ; it is the Lord ; "Tis thy Saviour; hear his word ; Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee, " Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me...
Page 40 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb ! 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? 3...
Page 78 - The Lord of all the vast domain Has promised it to me ; The length and breadth of all the plain As far as faith can see How glorious is my privilege!
Page 263 - The kindest and the happiest p"air Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Page 129 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile, From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star. Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LIVE.
Page 66 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 68 - GOD of my life, to Thee I call, Afflicted at thy feet I fall ; When the great water-floods prevail, Leave not my trembling heart to fail ! 2 Friend of the friendless, and the faint ! Where should I lodge my deep complaint ? Where but with Thee, whose open door Invites the helpless and the poor...