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. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged
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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, / And proves by thumps upon your back / How he esteems your merit, / Is such a friend, that one had need / Be very much his friend indeed / To pardon or to bear it.
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The man that is not moved with what he reads, That takes not fire at their heroic deeds, Unworthy of the blessings of the brave, Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / Whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
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The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,
Makes half a sentence at a time enough; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.
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The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade,/ And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade!
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
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The sounding jargon of the schools.
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The twentieth year is well-nigh past, / Since first our sky was overcast; / Ah would that this might be the last! / My Mary!
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