Related:

• O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 120...
• 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...
• Which not even critics criticise.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 51...
• 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...
• In indolent vacuity of thought.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 297...
• The Frenchman's darling.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 765...
• 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...
• Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents.
  And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill....