William Cowper Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Poetry, Poetic

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 285

• Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

  William Cowper

  Sports, Pain, Hunting

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 326 (on hunting)

• Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

  William Cowper

  Degrees, Judgment, Pleasure

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.21

• Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

  William Cowper

  Home, Men, Mind

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1851). “The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.122

• Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Imagination, Fancy

• Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

  William Cowper

  Tire, Pleasure, Labor

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.75

• Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
  And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Poverty, Pleasure

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.185, Routledge

• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

  William Cowper

  Regret, Eggs, Pleasure

• Religion does not censure or exclude
  Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

  William Cowper

  Religion, Doe, Pleasure

  William Cowper (1866). “Poems”, p.164

• Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
  In every bosom where her nest is made,
  Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
  And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Scorpions, Nests

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.68

• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Vices, Virtue

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