As if the world and they were hand and glove.
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
William Cowper
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct The language plain, and incidents well linkd Tell not as new what evry body knows and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
William Cowper
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper
Rome shall perish - write that word In the blood that she has spilt.
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.
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