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William Cowper Quotes about Home

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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

Home, Race, Attachment

William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.224

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Home, Dunces, Has Beens

'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 415

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

Retirement, Kings, Home

William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.12

Even in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates.

Home, Garden, Grace

William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.125

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these?

Friendship, Book, Home

William Cowper, “The Task: Book Iii. -- The Garden”

His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.

Home, Looks, Wit

'Conversation' (1782) l. 303

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

Home, Long, Wish

William Cowper (1825). “Table Talk, and Other Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq”, p.49

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

Home, Imagination, Fancy

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Running, Home, Fancy

William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.234

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

Home, Thieves, Purses

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.129

This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat.

Home, Sight, Years

William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.172

I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.

Kings, Home, Winter

"The Task: A Poem. In Six Books".

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.

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

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.

Strength, Home, Garden

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

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.

Home, Dark, Space

"Retirement" l. 691 (1782)

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