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How Various His Employments Whom The World Calls Idle, And Who Justly In Return Esteems That Busy World An Idler Too!
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How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle, and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 352
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 566...
Great contest follows, and much learned dust.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 161...
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 41...
From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 188...
And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world,--to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd....
What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 55...
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 733...
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 506...
Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 235...