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Great contest follows, and much learned dust.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 161
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 566...
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...
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...
All learned, and all drunk!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
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...
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells....
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 510...