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William Cowper: Citations en anglais
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There is a bird who by his coat,
And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed a crow.”
The Jackdaw (translation from Vincent Bourne).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: 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
Source: 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.”
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
Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 108.
“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.
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
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
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
William Cowper
The Task
Source: 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.”
Truth, line 327.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Translation of Horace, book ii, Ode x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.”
William Cowper
Retirement
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 681.
“But that disease when soberly defined
Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.”
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 667; of fanaticism.
Charity, line 435.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
