William Cowper citáty

William Cowper byl anglický básník, jeden z nejznámějších básníků své doby. Jeho básně mají převážně náboženský obsah, psal také duchovní písně. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. listopad 1731 – 25. duben 1800
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William Cowper nejznámější citáty

„Čaj - šálek, který rozveselí, ale neomámí.“

Zdroj: [Arcimovičová, Jana, Vůně čaje, Start, 1998, 80-902005-9-1, 39, česky]

William Cowper: Citáty anglicky

“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 92.
Kontext: Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

“Silently as a dream the fabric rose —
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 144.

“Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway”

"Boadicea" (1782).
Kontext: "Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway;
Where his eagles never flew,
None invincible as they."Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.

“Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.”

"Boadicea" (1782).
Kontext: "Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway;
Where his eagles never flew,
None invincible as they."Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre.

“O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.”

Zdroj: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37.
Kontext: My friends, do they now and then send
A wish or a thought after me?
O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.

“I play with syllables and sport in song”

From:First of the Moral Satires
Table Talk (1782)

“Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are disappointed.”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 127.

“But the sound of the church-going bell
These valleys and rocks never heard;
Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell,
Or smiled when a Sabbath appear'd.”

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 510.

“Low ambition and the thirst of praise.”

Zdroj: Table Talk (1782), Line 591.

“Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 223.

“What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 55.

“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has survived the fall!”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 41.

“Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 673.

“Give what Thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”

William Cowper The Task

Zdroj: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905.

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