An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
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To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton, All in a chaise and pair.William Cowper
Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
William Cowper
I never received a little pleasure from anything in my life if I am pleased, it is in the extreme.
William Cowper
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
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But love of change, it seems, has place
Not only in our wiser race;
Cats also feel, as well as we,
That passion's force, and so did she.
William Cowper
E'vn in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates.
William Cowper
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