William Cowper idézetek
William Cowper: Idézetek angolul
“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 92.
Kontextus: Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
“Silently as a dream the fabric rose —
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 144.
“Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway”
"Boadicea" (1782).
Kontextus: "Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway;
Where his eagles never flew,
None invincible as they."Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.
"Boadicea" (1782).
Kontextus: "Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway;
Where his eagles never flew,
None invincible as they."Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.
“O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.”
Forrás: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37.
Kontextus: My friends, do they now and then send
A wish or a thought after me?
O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.
“It seems idolatry with some excuse,
When our forefather Druids in their oaks
Imagined sanctity.”
Forrás: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 9-11
“He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.”
Forrás: Conversation (1782), Line 121.
"To a Young Lady" (1782).
St. 28.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 510.
“Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 223.
“What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 55.
“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 41.
“Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 673.
“Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”
Forrás: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905.
“A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.”
Forrás: Retirement (1782), Line 615.
“Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.”
Forrás: Conversation (1782), Line 357.
Forrás: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 53.
“Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.”
Forrás: Retirement (1782), Line 688.
Forrás: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 18-23
