 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...And shows him glories yet to be reveal'd. Not slothful he, though seeming nnemploy'd, And censur'd oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft water fairest...bird That flutters least, is longest on the wing. i Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has rais'd, Or what achievements of immortal fame He purposes,... | |
 | Bernard Barton - English poetry - 1828 - 258 pages
...odours shed In silence, and alone ; And Wisdom's hidden fount is fed By minds to fame unknown. * " Stillest streams Oft water fairest meadows, and the...bird That flutters least is longest on the wing." COWPER. 0,3 But soon or late the time will come, Though long it seem deferred, When loudest talkers... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...slothful he, though seeming unemployed. And censured oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft water/aireX meadows, and the bird. That flutters least, is longest on the wing. Camper. So, robed by beauty's queen, with softer charms Saturnia wooed the thunderer to her arms ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...Heaven unseen, And shows him glories yet to be reveal'd. Not slothful he, though seeming unemploy'd, And censured oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft...the bird That flutters least is longest on the wing. Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has raised, Or what achievements of immortal fame He purposes, and... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...And shows him glories yet to be reveal'd. Not slothful he, though seeming unemployed, And censur'd oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft water fairest meadows, and the bird That flatters least, is longest on the wing. Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has rais'd, Or what achievements... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Cherokee Indians - 1830 - 96 pages
...sublime and real, as its poetry is exquisite. Not slothful he, though seeming unemployed, And censuied oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft water fairest meadows, and the bird, Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has raised, That flutters least, is longest on the wing. Or what... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...heaven unseen, And shows him glories yet to be reveal'd. Not slothful he, though seeming unemploy'd, And censured oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft...the bird That flutters least is longest on the wing. Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has raised, Or what achievements of immortal fame He purposes, and... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...And shows him glories yet to be reveal'd. Not' slothful he, though seeming unemployed, And censur'd oft as useless. Stillest streams oft water fairest...the bird That flutters least is longest on the wing. Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has rais'd, <>r what achievements of immortal fame He purposes, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...And shows him glories yet to be reveal'd. Not slothful he, though seeming unemploy'd, And censuv'd oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft water fairest...and the bird. That flutters least, is longest on the wiug. Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has rais'd, Or what achievements of immortal fame He purposes,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...unseen, [earth And shows him glories yet to be reveal'd. Not slothful he, though seeming unemploy'd, And censured oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft...the bird That flutters least is longest on the wing. Ask him indeed what trophies he has raised, Or what achievements of immortal fame He purposes, and... | |
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Not slothful he, though seeming unemployed, And censured oft as useless. Stillest streams Oft water fairest meadows, and the bird That flutters least is longest on the wing. 
