William Cowper Quotes About Art
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But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!
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Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
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Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.
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Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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