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As if the world and they were hand and glove.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- Table Talk, Line 173
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 588
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 28
Low ambition and the thirst of praise. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 591
Made poetry a mere mechanic art. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 654
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 542...
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 246...
Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 260...
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flowe
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads....
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard
To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more....