I Would Not Have A Slave To Till My Ground, To Carry Me, To Fan Me While I Sleep And Tremble When I Wake, For All The Wealth That Sinews Bought And Sold Have Ever Earn'd.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
She that asks Her dear five hundred friends.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 642...
There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 285...
Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 444...
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 1...
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...
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 363...
God made the country, and man made the town.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...