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What Is It But A Map Of Busy Life, Its Fluctuations, And Its Vast Concerns?
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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
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 120...
All learned, and all drunk!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 510...
The Frenchman's darling.
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Which not even critics criticise.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 51...
In indolent vacuity of thought.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 297...
While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 118...
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
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Those golden times And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings, And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.
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