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Page 50
... cause ; The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude , by force repel the foe ; 15 20 20 25 25 30 35 While mutual wishes , mutual woes endear The social smile , the sympathetic tear . 40 Say , then , through ages by what ...
... cause ; The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude , by force repel the foe ; 15 20 20 25 25 30 35 While mutual wishes , mutual woes endear The social smile , the sympathetic tear . 40 Say , then , through ages by what ...
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... spectacles ought to belong . II So Tongue was the lawyer , and argued the cause 5 With a great deal of skill , and a wig full of learning , While Chief Baron Ear sat to balance the laws , 92 COWPER'S POEMS Report of an Adjudged Case.
... spectacles ought to belong . II So Tongue was the lawyer , and argued the cause 5 With a great deal of skill , and a wig full of learning , While Chief Baron Ear sat to balance the laws , 92 COWPER'S POEMS Report of an Adjudged Case.
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... cause , to feel the slightest fear . 90 95 35 Yourselves have seen , what time the thunders rolled All night , me resting quiet in the fold , Or heard we that tremendous bray alone , I could expound the melancholy tone ; Should deem it ...
... cause , to feel the slightest fear . 90 95 35 Yourselves have seen , what time the thunders rolled All night , me resting quiet in the fold , Or heard we that tremendous bray alone , I could expound the melancholy tone ; Should deem it ...
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... cause appear , We have at least commodious standing here . Come fiend , come fury , giant , monster , blast From earth or hell , we can but plunge at last . ” 120 While thus she spake , I fainter heard the peals , For Reynard , close ...
... cause appear , We have at least commodious standing here . Come fiend , come fury , giant , monster , blast From earth or hell , we can but plunge at last . ” 120 While thus she spake , I fainter heard the peals , For Reynard , close ...
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... cause , Who , strange to tell , all judged it wrong , And gave misplaced applause . They gentle called , and kind and soft , The flippant and the scold , 20 And though she changed her mood so oft , That 122 COWPER'S POEMS The Judgment ...
... cause , Who , strange to tell , all judged it wrong , And gave misplaced applause . They gentle called , and kind and soft , The flippant and the scold , 20 And though she changed her mood so oft , That 122 COWPER'S POEMS The Judgment ...
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote