William Cowper Quotes about Sports

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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

William Cowper

Sports, Pain, Hunting

'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 326 (on hunting)

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

William Cowper

Sports, Country, Mad

William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

William Cowper

Sports, Reading, Giving

William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.113