Quelle: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 1.
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No. 1, "Walking With God"
Olney Hymns (1779)
“The sounding jargon of the schools.”
Truth, line 367.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.”
No. 29, "Exhortation to Prayer".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”
William Cowper
The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 265.
“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
William Cowper
The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 606.
“I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.”
Quelle: Conversation (1782), Line 283.
“Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.”
William Cowper
The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 444.
“Religion! what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word!”
Quelle: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 25.
“There goes the parson, O illustrious spark!
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.”
On observing some Names of Little Note.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
Quelle: Table Talk (1782), Line 542.
"Pairing Time Anticipated, Moral" (c. 1794).
“We have no slaves at home. ─ Then why abroad?”
William Cowper
The Task
Quelle: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 37.
Quelle: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37
