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. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
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Philologists who chase / A panting syllable through time and space, / Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, / To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.
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Public schools 'tis public folly feeds.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Regions Caesar never knew / Thy posterity shall sway.
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
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Remorse begets reform.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid / In every bosom where her nest is made.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream
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Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Says John, It is my wedding-day, / And all the world would stare, / If wife should dine at Edmonton, / And I should dine at Ware.
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Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
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