William Cowper Frases famosas
“A vida pouco nos deve; a ela devemos tudo.”
Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
citado em "Phillips' book of great thoughts, funny sayings: a stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments : for personal enjoyment and ready reference" - Página 153, de Bob Phillips - Tyndale House, 1993, ISBN 0842350357, 9780842350358 - 343 páginas
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“Ter uma vida tranqüila é um objetivo díficil.”
A life of ease a difficult pursuit. <br class="br">"Retirement" in: The works of William Cowper: His life and letters - vol. 6, Página 210 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=FIQgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA210, de William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Saunders & Otley, 1835
“A única felicidade vem quando nos gastamos por um propósito.”
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose
citado em "Noble Purpose: The Joy of Living a Meaningful Life" - página 9, de William Damon - Templeton Foundation Press, 2003, ISBN 1599470489, 9781599470481
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William Cowper frases e citações
William Cowper: Frases em inglês
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 86.
“As if the world and they were hand and glove.”
Fonte: Table Talk (1782), Line 173.
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 779.
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 411.
“There is a bird who by his coat,
And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed a crow.”
The Jackdaw (translation from Vincent Bourne).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Fonte: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 17.
“Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85.
“My soul
Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught,
I have learned patience, having much endured.”
The Odyssey of Homer: translated into English blank verse (1791), Book V, line 264.
“I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 108.
“She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 642.
“Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,
Of his unrivall'd pencil.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 240.
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
From the writings of William Cowper Brann (1855 – 1898), known as Brann the Iconoclast. http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=zc6W3a68NsoC&pg=PA60&dq=%22patriot+on+an+empty%22+inauthor:Brann&as_brr=0&sig=an5LOns0MG1gg4C2x7VNE1HdeuI <br class="br">Misattributed
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 17.
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 566.
“Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,—
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.”
Truth, line 327.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Translation of Horace, book ii, Ode x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 702.
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 34.
“Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.”
Fonte: Table Talk (1782), Line 1.
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.”
William Cowper Retirement
Fonte: Retirement (1782), Line 681.
“But that disease when soberly defined
Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.”
Fonte: Conversation (1782), Line 667; of fanaticism.
“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.”
Fonte: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 240.
Charity, line 435.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)