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
Fuente: 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)
“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 265.
“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 606.
“I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.”
Fuente: Conversation (1782), Line 283.
“Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 444.
“Religion! what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word!”
Fuente: 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)
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
Fuente: Table Talk (1782), Line 542.
"Pairing Time Anticipated, Moral" (c. 1794).
“We have no slaves at home. ─ Then why abroad?”
Fuente: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 37.
Fuente: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37