From Reveries So Airy, From The Toil Of Dropping Buckets Into Empty Wells, And Growing Old In Drawing Nothing Up.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 566...
Great contest follows, and much learned dust.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 161...
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 41...
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 352...
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 363...
All learned, and all drunk!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 478...
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iv, The Winter Evening, Line 510...
God made the country, and man made the town.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 749...