William Cowper Quotes - Page 9

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• All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Needs, Divine

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.75

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• Religion, richest favor of the skies.

  William Cowper

  Sky, Religion, Favors

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.55

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

  William Cowper

  Religion, Doe, Pleasure

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

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• Pity! Religion has so seldom found
  A skilful guide into poetic ground!
  The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray
  And every muse attend her in her way.

  William Cowper

  Spring, Flower, Religion

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.14

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• Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
  To peep at such a world; to see the stir
  Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

  William Cowper

  World, Crowds, Retreat

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 88

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• If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

  William Cowper

  Struggle, Men, Noble

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey”, p.42

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• It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

  William Cowper

  Judgment, Should, Mischief

  Devit v. College of Dublin, Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249, as quoted in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe (1904), p. 176, 1720.

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• Come, evening, once again, season of peace;
  Return, sweet evening, and continue long!
  Methinks I see thee in the streaky west,
  With matron step, slow moving, while the night
  Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd
  In letting fall the curtain of repose
  On bird and beast, the other charged for man
  With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Moving, Fall

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1859). “Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]”, p.215

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• In the vast, and the minute, we see
  The unambiguous footsteps of the God,
  Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing
  And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

  William Cowper

  Wings, Giving, Rolling

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.594

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• All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

  William Cowper

  Men, Evil, Constraints

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.300

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• Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

  William Cowper

  Compassion, Tempest, Lost

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.405

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• As if the world and they were hand and glove.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Hypocrisy, World

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.51

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• The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

  William Cowper

  Judging, Judgement, Fool

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.165

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• The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

  William Cowper

  Church, Dukes, Enough

  'Tirocinium' (1785) l. 403

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• But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Glowing, Liberty

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.186

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• Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

  William Cowper

  Fire, Joy, Heaven

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.264

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• Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

  William Cowper

  Goodbye, Farewell, Diversity

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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• Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

  William Cowper

  War, Skills, Doing Nothing

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 192

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• Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

  William Cowper

  Fire, Mind, Fanatics

  William Cowper (1815). “Poems”, p.245

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• A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

  William Cowper

  Life, Success, Wise

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.155

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• Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

  William Cowper

  Strength, Home, Garden

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.255

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• 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

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• The beggarly last doit.

  William Cowper

  Lasts, Poverty

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.265

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• It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Sound, Doe

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• Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

  William Cowper

  Friendship, Dog

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.32

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