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• 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...
• O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 120...
• And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
  'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world,--to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd....
• 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...
• Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 510...
• All learned, and all drunk!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
• 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...
• Which not even critics criticise.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 51...