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• O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 120...
• All learned, and all drunk!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
• Which not even critics criticise.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 51...
• 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....
• 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....