The poetical works of William Cowper Complete edition, with memoir, explanatory notes, &c .. . er prey upon our annual rents,Or scare the nation with its big contents:Disbanded legions freely might depart,And slaying man would cease to be an learned disputants would take the field,Sure not to conquer, and sure not to yield :Both sides deceived, if rightly understood,Pelting each other for the public Charity prevail, the press would proveA vehicle of virtue, truth, and love ;And I might spare myself the pains to snowWhat few can learn, and all suppose they know. Thus have I soug
The poetical works of William Cowper Complete edition, with memoir, explanatory notes, &c .. . er prey upon our annual rents,Or scare the nation with its big contents:Disbanded legions freely might depart,And slaying man would cease to be an learned disputants would take the field,Sure not to conquer, and sure not to yield :Both sides deceived, if rightly understood,Pelting each other for the public Charity prevail, the press would proveA vehicle of virtue, truth, and love ;And I might spare myself the pains to snowWhat few can learn, and all suppose they know. Thus have I sought to grace a serious layWith many a wild, indeed, but flowery spray,In hopes to gain, what else I must have lost,The attention pleasure has so much if, unhappily deceived, 1 dream,And prove too weak for so divine a theme,Let Charity forgive me a mistakeThat zeal, not vanity, has chanced to make,And spare the poet for his subjects sake. * An Italian writer, who published a work called The Prince; he inculcated in itgreat deceit and subtlety—hence the word Machiavellian .>. CONVERSATION,* ARGUMENT. In conversation much depends on culture—Indecent language and oaths reprobated—Theauthors dislike of the clash of arguments—The noisy wrangler—The positive pronouncewithout hesitation—The point of honour condemned—Duelling with fists instead ofweapons proposed—Effect of long tales—The retailer of prodigies and lies—Qualitiesof a judicious tale—Smoking condemned—The emphatic speaker—The perfumed beau—The grave coxcomb—Sickness made a topic of conversation—Picture of afretful temper—The bashful speaker—An English company—The Sportsman—Influence of fashion on conversation—Converse of the two disciples going toEmmaus—Delights of religious conversation—Age mellows the speech—Truepiety often branded as fanatic frenzy—Pleasure of communion with the good—Conversation should be unconstrained—Persons who make the Bible their
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