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" And just proportion, fashionable mien And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks... "
Poems - Page 52
by William Cowper - 1802
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The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...pretty face, in presence of his God ? 75 Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the di'mond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before...hungry for the bread of life ' He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shame* His holy office, and, instead of truth, 81 Displaying his own beauty, starves...
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The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review ...

William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...form And just proportion, fashionable mien And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the diamond on his...hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and, instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1899 - 660 pages
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Life and works of William Cowper, Volume 6

William Cowper - 1836 - 518 pages
...form, And just proportion, fashionable mien, And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the diamond on his...hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and, instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...42O And just proportion, fashionable mien And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the diamond on his...hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes 425 When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office,...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...420 And just proportion, fashionable mien And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the diamond on his...hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes 425 When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office,...
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The Task: In Six Books

William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...form, And just proportion, fashionable mien, And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes As with the diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts hefore my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and skamea...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...with tropes, As with the diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes 425 When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and instead of truth Displaying his own beauty, starves his...
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Principles of elocution

William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...form, And just proportion, fashionable mien, And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the diamond on his...hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and, instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves...
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Poems ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by John M'Diarmid ...

William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...form And just proportion, fashionable mien And pretty face, in presence of his God ? Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes, As with the diamond on his...hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and, instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves...
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