Best William Cowper Lines
- An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. Both
- Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. Charity
- How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree,… Address
- Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and… Ark
- For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but… Cranny
- Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. Alone
- What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. Aching
- Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. Him
- How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of… Arrows
- Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. God
- Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Been
- Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. Fascination
- Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take… Apt
- Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… Ah
- Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace. Inspirational
- Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. Both
- They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. Best
- Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they. Caesar
- Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,… Address
- I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest… Cause
- He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. Ambassador
- The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote… Bred
- There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. Clerk
- Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. Art
- God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God… Bees
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