Source: Poetical works
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Famous William Cowper Quotes
Source: Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems
“Blest be the art that can immortalize.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: The task. Tirocinium. Miscellaneous poems. Adam: a sacred drama, tr. from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini
“Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.”
Source: Poems
“Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author
“Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: Posthumous poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne. Translations of the Latin and Italian poems of Milton. Epigrams translated from the Latin of Owen. Translations of Greek verses. Translations from the Fables of Gay. Adam: a sacred drama, translated from the Italian of Andreini
“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”
“But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!”
Source: Poetical works