Frases célebres de William Cowper
“Una persona perezosa es un reloj sin agujas, siendo inútil tanto si anda como si está parado.”
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 228.
William Cowper: Frases en inglés
“Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”
Of fox-hunting.
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 326
“The still small voice is wanted.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 685.
“The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”
To an Afflicted Protestant Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 235.
“Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
Fuente: Table Talk (1782), Line 246.
“But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 187.
The opening statement is often paraphrased: God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a luster, he that runs may read.”
"Tirocinium", line 79 (1785).
The Retired Cat.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Fuente: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 49-52
“God made the country, and man made the town.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 749.
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
The Iliad of Homer: translated into English blank verse (1791), Preface.
“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”
A misquotation of "The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow", from James Fenimore Cooper's The Red Rover (1827), ch. 23.
Misattributed
“Some to the fascination of a name
Surrender judgment hoodwink'd.”
The Task, book vi. Winter Walk at Noon, line 101.
The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon
“A kick that scarce would move a horse
May kill a sound divine.”
The Yearly Distress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.”
"Epistle to Joseph Hill", line 62 (1785).
Fuente: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 13-16
On Friendship.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
Actually the opening lines of Keats's "Fancy" (1820).
Misattributed