Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- Table Talk, Line 28
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- Table Talk, Line 28
Related:
- As if the world and they were hand and glove.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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Table Talk, Line... - Elegant as simplicity, and warm
As ecstasy.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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Table Talk, Line... - Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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Table Talk, Line... - Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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Table Talk, Line... - Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius,
sense, and wit. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) --... - Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves,
howe'er contented, never know. -- William Cowper (1731... - Happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line... - Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The... - 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...
