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
“O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 481.
No. 79, "Praise for the Fountain Opened".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 120.
"On the Loss of the Royal George", st. 1 (1791).
“Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all
that once lived here”
Fuente: The Yardley Oak (1791), Lines 1-2
“Which not even critics criticise.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 51.
“Tis hard if all is false that I advance,
A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
Fuente: Conversation (1782), Line 96.
“Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.”
"The Castaway" (1799).
Fuente: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 5.
“As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 444.
“In indolent vacuity of thought.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 297.
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“A moral, sensible, and well-bred man
Will not affront me, and no other can.”
Fuente: Conversation (1782), Line 193.
“Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day
(Live till tomorrow) will have passed away.”
"The Needless Alarm, Moral" (1794).
“There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 285.
“The son of parents pass'd into the skies.”
On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 118.
“Those golden times
And those Arcadian scenes that Maro sings,
And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 514.
St. 63.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
“He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 733.
Fuente: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 1-8