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William Cowper Quotes

«Not scorned in Heaven, though little noticed here.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«Let her pass, and charioted along / In guilty splendour, shake the public ways!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: splendour
«Detested sport, / That owes its pleasures to another's pain.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: detested
«Blest be the art that can immortalize.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: immortalize
«So you must ride / On horseback after we.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«And the first smith was the first murderer's son.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: murderer, smith
«The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet will be the flower.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: taste buds
«Nor sword nor spear the stripling took, / But chose a pebble from the brook.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: brook, pebble, spear, stripling
«Beggars invention and makes fancy lame.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: beggars
«Away went Gilpin, neck or naught, / Away went hat and wig!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: Gilpin, wig, wigs