“Transforms old print
To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes
Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.”

—  William Cowper, The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 363.

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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800

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