Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ...J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard., 1793 - 359 pages |
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... hold property in a negro ; but a question from the State , and deprived them of the means whether , in the nature of things , and consistently of subsistence , that every man who stops short with the rights of man , one man can make a ...
... hold property in a negro ; but a question from the State , and deprived them of the means whether , in the nature of things , and consistently of subsistence , that every man who stops short with the rights of man , one man can make a ...
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... hold. If it happens that you are leading to such a marriage, you must break the yoke and run as fast as your feet can carry you. When you become a victim of a bewitched marriage, you will find it difficult to survive the ordeals that ...
... hold. If it happens that you are leading to such a marriage, you must break the yoke and run as fast as your feet can carry you. When you become a victim of a bewitched marriage, you will find it difficult to survive the ordeals that ...
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... holds the tenderness so close to her heart. • My key skill is making failure look like it was intentional. • There are new galaxies being born between all these pauses. There are a million stars dying while I wait for ... Hold on Pain Ends.
... holds the tenderness so close to her heart. • My key skill is making failure look like it was intentional. • There are new galaxies being born between all these pauses. There are a million stars dying while I wait for ... Hold on Pain Ends.
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... hold wads of bank notes. I approach a young one and say I want to change 100 euros. (For that amount one could buy ... holds out some chewing gum for me to buy. He is from one of the two refugee camps in Ramallah. I buy. He's also ...
... hold wads of bank notes. I approach a young one and say I want to change 100 euros. (For that amount one could buy ... holds out some chewing gum for me to buy. He is from one of the two refugee camps in Ramallah. I buy. He's also ...
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... holds it all together looks as though it was created for the bouquet , but it's really the bouquet that was created for the ribbon , which our bride and her fiancé found on a trip to Mexico . T Versatile Dazzler Dahlias TO HAVE & TO HOLD ...
... holds it all together looks as though it was created for the bouquet , but it's really the bouquet that was created for the ribbon , which our bride and her fiancé found on a trip to Mexico . T Versatile Dazzler Dahlias TO HAVE & TO HOLD ...
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Page 343 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Page 350 - Were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road Most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke As they had basted been. But still he...
Page 139 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 275 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.
Page 218 - He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Page 65 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own — Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design.
Page 101 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Page 46 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 47 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Page 219 - His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —