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• God made the country, and man made the town.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...
• Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 181...
• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 506...
• United yet divided, twain at once: So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 77...
• England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
• I burn to set the imprison'd wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again.
  Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate So let us welcome peaceful evening in....
• Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free!
  They touch our country, and their shackles fall....
• Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 566...
• All learned, and all drunk!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...