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William Cowper Quotes

«The sounding jargon of the schools.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: jargon of, sounding
«All zeal for a reform, that gives offenceTo peace and charity, is mere pretence.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: offence
«One leg by truth supported, one by lies,They sidle to the goal with awkward pace,Secure of nothing -- but to lose the race.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: awkward, sidle
«Spare feast! a radish and an egg.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: radish, radishes
«I cannot talk with civet in the room,A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: civet, puss
«. . . words, pregnant with celestial fire.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: celestial, pregnant
«I crown thee king of intimate delights,Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: enjoyments
«I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life; if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«Made poetry a mere mechanical art.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«Religion does not censure or excludeUnnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: harmlessly, unnumbered