245 ordspråk av William Cowper
William Cowper
William Cowper föddes den
15 November 1731 och dog den 25 April
1800 - One of the most widely read English poets of his day.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. My God, till I received thy stroke, / How like a beast was I! / So unaccustomed to the yoke, / So backward to comply.
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My hat and wig will soon be here, / They are upon the road.
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My sin and judgment are alike peculiar. I am a castaway, deserted and condemned.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.
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No dancing bear was so genteel, / Or half so dégagé.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, till half of mankind were, like himself, possest
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Nor sword nor spear the stripling took, / But chose a pebble from the brook.
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Not scorned in Heaven, though little noticed here.
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Now let us sing, Long live the king, / And Gilpin, long live he; / And when he next doth ride abroad, / May I be there to see!
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Now let us sing, Long live the king.
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