„Which not even critics criticise.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 51.
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„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.
„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.
„As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 444.
„All learned, and all drunk!“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 478.
„There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 285.
„I play with syllables and sport in song“
From:First of the Moral Satires
Table Talk (1782)
„What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 55.
„The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 506.
„A worm is in the bud of youth,
And at the root of age.“
Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.“
The Rose.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„The sounding jargon of the schools.“
Truth, line 367.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„The Frenchman's darling.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 765.
„His head,
Not yet by time completely silvered o'er,
Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,
But strong for service still, and unimpaired.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 702.
„Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 444.
„With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 217.
„Transforms old print
To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes
Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 363.
„Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85.
„Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Источник: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905.
