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    William Cowper

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    It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #blest #blood #chills #each #hear

    Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #dismiss #god #heart #his #man

    Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #effect #god #good #name #nature

    No one was ever scolded out of their sins. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #out #scolded #sins #their

    No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #enthusiast #half #him #like #possessed

    O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ↗


    — William Cowper

    #applause #charms #heart #man #popular

    Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #every step #his #his way #instinct #known

    Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #fatal #laid #pleasure #remorse

    The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #darkest #day #live #passed #till

    The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl. ↗


    — William Cowper

    #children #could #did #dogs #done






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    Major works
    Olney Hymns 1779 in collaboration with John Newton
    John Gilpin 1782
    The Task 1785
    Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 1791 (translations from the Greek). In 1795 Cowper moved with Mary to Norfolk. All of them were publiWilliam Cowperd in 1782 under the title Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple Esq.

    One of the most popular poets of his time Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. His poem "Light Shining out of Darkness" gave the English language the idiom "God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform. William Cowper (pron.

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