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Уи́льям Ку́пер — английский поэт.

✵ 26. Ноябрь 1731 – 25. Апрель 1800
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“As if the world and they were hand and glove.”

William Cowper

Источник: Table Talk (1782), Line 173.

“How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.”

William Cowper

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

“Reading what they never wrote,
Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 411.

“There is a bird who by his coat,
And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed a crow.”

William Cowper

The Jackdaw (translation from Vincent Bourne).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Society friendship and love
Divinely bestow'd upon man,
O had I the wings of a dove
How soon I would taste you again!”

William Cowper

Источник: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 17.

“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.

“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”

William Cowper

The Odyssey of Homer: translated into English blank verse (1791), Book V, line 264.

“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.

“She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 642.

“Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 240.

“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”

William Cowper

From the writings of William Cowper Brann (1855 – 1898), known as Brann the Iconoclast. http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=zc6W3a68NsoC&amp;pg=PA60&amp;dq=%22patriot+on+an+empty%22+inauthor:Brann&amp;as_brr=0&amp;sig=an5LOns0MG1gg4C2x7VNE1HdeuI <br class="br">Misattributed

“Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 17.

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

William Cowper The Task

Источник: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 566.

“Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,—
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.”

William Cowper

Truth, line 327.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”

William Cowper

Источник: Table Talk (1782), Line 1.

“An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.”

William Cowper Retirement

Источник: Retirement (1782), Line 681.

“But that disease when soberly defined
Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.”

William Cowper

Источник: Conversation (1782), Line 667; of fanaticism.

“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.”

William Cowper

Источник: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 240.