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
Fonte: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 1.
No. 1, "Walking With God"
Olney Hymns (1779)
“The sounding jargon of the schools.”
Truth, line 367.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.”
No. 29, "Exhortation to Prayer".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“Lights of the world, and stars of human race.”
Fonte: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 97.
“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 265.
“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 606.
“A hat not much the worse for wear.”
St. 46.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
“I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.”
Fonte: Conversation (1782), Line 283.
“Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 444.
“True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.”
"Charity", line 573. (1781).
“I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins.”
Letter to John Newton, (17 June 1783).
“Religion! what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word!”
Fonte: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 25.
“There goes the parson, O illustrious spark!
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.”
On observing some Names of Little Note.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 788.
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
Fonte: Table Talk (1782), Line 542.
"Pairing Time Anticipated, Moral" (c. 1794).
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 765.
“We have no slaves at home. ─ Then why abroad?”
William Cowper The Task
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 37.
Fonte: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37