Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 1.
William Cowper: 174 citations0 J'aime
William Cowper: Citations en anglais
No. 1, "Walking With God"
Olney Hymns (1779)
“The sounding jargon of the schools.”
Truth, line 367.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.”
No. 29, "Exhortation to Prayer".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“Lights of the world, and stars of human race.”
Source: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 97.
“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”
William Cowper The Task
Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 265.
“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
William Cowper The Task
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 606.
“A hat not much the worse for wear.”
St. 46.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
“I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.”
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 283.
“Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.”
William Cowper The Task
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 444.
“True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.”
"Charity", line 573. (1781).
“I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins.”
Letter to John Newton, (17 June 1783).
“Religion! what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word!”
Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 25.
“There goes the parson, O illustrious spark!
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.”
On observing some Names of Little Note.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Cowper The Task
Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 788.
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 542.
"Pairing Time Anticipated, Moral" (c. 1794).
William Cowper The Task
Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 765.
“We have no slaves at home. ─ Then why abroad?”
William Cowper The Task
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 37.
Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37
