„Silently as a dream the fabric rose —
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 144.
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Купер, Уильям
Дата рождения: 26. Ноябрь 1731
Дата смерти: 25. Апрель 1800
Уи́льям Ку́пер — английский поэт.
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„Silently as a dream the fabric rose —
„Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.“
— 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.
„Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway“
"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.
„It seems idolatry with some excuse,
When our forefather Druids in their oaks
Imagined sanctity.“
Источник: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 9-11
„O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.“
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.
„Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.“
"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.
„Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.“
Источник: Table Talk (1782), Line 1.
„Now let us sing — Long live the king,
And Gilpin, long live he;
And, when he next doth ride abroad,
May I be there to see!“
St. 63.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
„There is mercy in every place,
And mercy, encouraging thought!
Gives even affliction a grace
And reconciles man to his lot.“
Источник: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 53.
„Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 161.
„I would not enter on my list of friends,
(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path;
But he that has humanity, forewarn'd,
Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 560.
„In indolent vacuity of thought.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 297.
„Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free!
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 40.
„Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 223.
„England, with all thy faults, I love thee still—
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrained to love thee.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 206.
„Society friendship and love
Divinely bestow'd upon man,
O had I the wings of a dove
How soon I would taste you again!“
Источник: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 17.
„A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.“
— William Cowper, Retirement
Источник: Retirement (1782), Line 615.
„Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.“
— William Cowper, Retirement
Источник: Retirement (1782), Line 688.
„I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 108.
„But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 187.
