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“And Katerfelto, with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world,—to see the stir
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 86.

World , Feeling

“As if the world and they were hand and glove.”

William Cowper

Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 173.

World

“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)

Light , Speed

“Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste
His works. Admitted once to his embrace,
Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before:
Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart
Made pure shall relish with divine delight
Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 779.

God , Heart

“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

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

Reading

“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)

Bird

“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

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

Love , Friendship

“And still to love, though prest with ill,
In wintry age to feel no chill,
With me is to be lovely still,
My Mary!”

William Cowper

"To Mary", st. 11 (1791).

Love , Age , Feeling

“Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85.

Books , Learning , Heart

“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.

Soul , Learning , Patience

“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the marks upon a blushing face,
Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”

William Cowper

Source: Conversation (1782), Line 347.

Men , Pain , Feeling

“I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 108.

“No voice divine the storm allay'd,
No light propitious shone;
When, snatch'd from all effectual aid,
We perish'd, each alone;
But I beneath a rougher sea,
And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he.”

William Cowper The Castaway

"The Castaway" (1799).

Light , Sea

“She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: 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

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

Flowers

“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&pg=PA60&dq=%22patriot+on+an+empty%22+inauthor:Brann&as_brr=0&sig=an5LOns0MG1gg4C2x7VNE1HdeuI
Misattributed

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

William Cowper The Task

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

Mountain

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

William Cowper The Task

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

Love

“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)

Truth

“He that holds fast the golden mean, 22
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.”

William Cowper

Translation of Horace, book ii, Ode x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Feeling