Cowper. the Didactic Poems of 1782, with Selections from the Minor Pieces (the Task, Wit Tirocinium and Selections from the Minor Poems) Ed. by H.T. Griffith
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Cowper. the Didactic Poems of 1782, with Selections from the Minor Pieces (the Task, Wit Tirocinium and Selections from the Minor Poems) Ed. by H.T. Griffith

Cowper. the Didactic Poems of 1782, with Selections from the Minor Pieces (the Task, Wit Tirocinium and Selections from the Minor Poems) Ed. by H.T. Griffith


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ... ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. 95 Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking multitude enthralled. 100 Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment hoodwinked. Some the style Infatuates, and through labyrinths and wilds Of error, leads them by a tune entranced. While sloth seduces more, too weak to bear 105 The insupportable fatigue of thought, And swallowing therefore without pause or choice The total grist unsifted, husks and all. But trees, and rivulets whose rapid course Defies the check of winter, haunts of deer, no And sheepwalks populous with bleating lambs, And lanes in which the primrose ere her time Peeps through the moss that clothes the hawthorn root, Deceive no student. Wisdom there, and Truth, Not shy as in the world, and to be won 115 By slow solicitation, seize at once The roving thought, and fix it on themselves. What prodigies can power divine perform More grand than it produces year by year, And all in sight of inattentive man? 120 Familiar with the effect we slight the cause, And in the constancy of Nature's course, The regular return of genial months, And renovation of a faded world, See naught to wonder at. Should God again, 125 As once in Gibeon, interrupt the race Of the undeviating and punctual sun, How would the world admire! But speaks it less An agency divine, to make him know His moment when to sink and whe...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236200891
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236200896
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 218 gr

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