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Уи́льям Ку́пер — английский поэт.

✵ 26. Ноябрь 1731 – 25. Апрель 1800
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“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 92.
Контексте: Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

“Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumor of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 1.

“Silently as a dream the fabric rose —
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 144.

“Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway”

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William Cowper

"Boadicea" (1782).
Контексте: "Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway;
Where his eagles never flew,
None invincible as they."Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.

“Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.”

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"Boadicea" (1782).
Контексте: "Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway;
Where his eagles never flew,
None invincible as they."Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.

“O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.”

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William Cowper

Источник: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37.
Контексте: My friends, do they now and then send
A wish or a thought after me?
O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.

“It seems idolatry with some excuse,
When our forefather Druids in their oaks
Imagined sanctity.”

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William Cowper

Источник: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 9-11

“He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.”

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William Cowper

Источник: Conversation (1782), Line 121.

“I play with syllables and sport in song”

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From:First of the Moral Satires
Table Talk (1782)

“Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 161.

“Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade,
Apt emblem of a virtuous maid
Silent and chaste she steals along,
Far from the world's gay busy throng:
With gentle yet prevailing force,
Intent upon her destined course;
Graceful and useful all she does,
Blessing and blest where'er she goes;
Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass,
And Heaven reflected in her face.”

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"To a Young Lady" (1782).

“Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are disappointed.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 127.

“The dogs did bark, the children screamed,
Up flew the windows all;
And every soul cried out, "Well done!"
As loud as he could bawl.”

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St. 28.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)

“But the sound of the church-going bell
These valleys and rocks never heard;
Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell,
Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd.”

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Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 506.

“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free!
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 40.

“A knave, when tried on honesty's plain rule,
And, when by that of reason, a mere fool”

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Hope

“Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 510.

“Low ambition and the thirst of praise.”

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William Cowper

Источник: Table Talk (1782), Line 591.

“Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 223.

“What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 55.

“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 41.

“Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 673.

“Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”

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William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905.

“A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.”

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William Cowper Retirement

Источник: Retirement (1782), Line 615.

“Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.”

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Источник: Conversation (1782), Line 357.

“There is mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging thought!
Gives even affliction a grace
And reconciles man to his lot.”

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William Cowper

Источник: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 53.

“Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.”

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William Cowper Retirement

Источник: Retirement (1782), Line 688.

“Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball,
Which babes might play with; and the thievish jay
Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined
The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down
Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs
And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
But fate thy growth decreed.”

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William Cowper

Источник: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 18-23