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

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

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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