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Уи́льям Ку́пер — английский поэт.

✵ 26. Ноябрь 1731 – 25. Апрель 1800
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“With filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, My Father made them all!”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 745.

“Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”

William Cowper The Task

Of fox-hunting.
Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 326

“The still small voice is wanted.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 685.

“The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”

To an Afflicted Protestant Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 235.

“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.

“Elegant as simplicity, and warm
As ecstasy.”

Источник: Table Talk (1782), Line 588.

“God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.”

The opening statement is often paraphrased: God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)

“Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 181.

“God made the country, and man made the town.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 749.

“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”

A misquotation of "The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow", from James Fenimore Cooper's The Red Rover (1827), ch. 23.
Misattributed

“Some to the fascination of a name
Surrender judgment hoodwink'd.”

William Cowper The Task

The Task, book vi. Winter Walk at Noon, line 101.
The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon

“A kick that scarce would move a horse
May kill a sound divine.”

The Yearly Distress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle, and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 352.

“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”

Actually the opening lines of Keats's "Fancy" (1820).
Misattributed