„Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 223.
Zitate William Cowper
„What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 55.
„Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 41.
„Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: 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.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: 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.“
— William Cowper, Retirement
Quelle: Retirement (1782), Line 615.
„Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.“
Quelle: Conversation (1782), Line 357.
Quelle: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 53.
„Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.“
— William Cowper, Retirement
Quelle: Retirement (1782), Line 688.
Quelle: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 18-23
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 745.
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 88.
„Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Of fox-hunting.
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 326
„The still small voice is wanted.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 685.
„The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.“
To an Afflicted Protestant Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 235.
„Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.“
Quelle: Table Talk (1782), Line 246.
„But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.“
— William Cowper, The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 187.
