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• Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 691...
• As if the world and they were hand and glove.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 173...
• She that asks Her dear five hundred friends.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 642...
• He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 121...
• Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,-- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Truth, Line 327...
• See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• Fast-anchor'd isle. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 151
• The sounding jargon of the schools. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Truth, Line 367
• Variety 's the very spice of life. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 606