The Poems of William Cowper, Volume 2Press of C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... song , And yet ambitious not to sing in vain , I would not trifle merely , though the world Be loudest in their praise , who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks of ...
... song , And yet ambitious not to sing in vain , I would not trifle merely , though the world Be loudest in their praise , who do no more . Yet what can satire , whether grave or gay ? It may correct a foible , may chastise The freaks of ...
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... song Be quell'd in all our summer months ' retreats ; How many self - deluded nymphs and swains , Who dream they have a taste for fields and groves , brutes Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And 66 B. III . THE TASK .
... song Be quell'd in all our summer months ' retreats ; How many self - deluded nymphs and swains , Who dream they have a taste for fields and groves , brutes Would find them hideous nurseries of the spleen , And 66 B. III . THE TASK .
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... , else base and disesteem'd- Food for the vulgar merely - is an art That toiling ages have but just matured , 1 Miraturque novos fructus et non sua poma . VIRG . And at this moment unassay'd in song . Yet gnats 70 B. III . THE TASK .
... , else base and disesteem'd- Food for the vulgar merely - is an art That toiling ages have but just matured , 1 Miraturque novos fructus et non sua poma . VIRG . And at this moment unassay'd in song . Yet gnats 70 B. III . THE TASK .
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William Cowper. And at this moment unassay'd in song . Yet gnats have had , and frogs and mice , long since , Their eulogy ; those sang the Mantuan bard , And these the Grecian , in ennobling strains ; And in thy numbers , Philips ...
William Cowper. And at this moment unassay'd in song . Yet gnats have had , and frogs and mice , long since , Their eulogy ; those sang the Mantuan bard , And these the Grecian , in ennobling strains ; And in thy numbers , Philips ...
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... song Cold as its theme , and like its theme the fruit Of too much labour , worthless when produced . Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too . Unconscious of a less propitious clime , There blooms exotic beauty , warm and snug , While ...
... song Cold as its theme , and like its theme the fruit Of too much labour , worthless when produced . Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too . Unconscious of a less propitious clime , There blooms exotic beauty , warm and snug , While ...
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