 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...And, under such preceptors, who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, Th' expedients and inventions,...multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...And, under such preceptors, who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, Th' expedients and inventions,...multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains 585 Which only poets know. The shifts ano! turns, The expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to winrTo arrest the fleeting images that fill 2TO The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains, , Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, The expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms * Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — To arrest the fleeting images, that fill The mirror... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, The expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to winTo arrest the fleeting images, that fill The mirror of the... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...And, under such preceptors, who can fail ? There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. The shifts and turns Th' expedients and inventions,...multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms, Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win.... T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...And, under such preceptors, who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, Th' expedients and inventions,...multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win..., T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...communicate your skill To those that need it. Folly is soon learn'd: And under such preceptors who can fail! Th' expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win— T' arrest the fleeting images, that fill The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...And under such preceptors who can fail ! There aa pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, Th' expedients and inventions...multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — T' arrest the fleeting images, that fill The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...And under such preceptors who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetick pains, Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, Th' expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in ch: se of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win— T' arrest the fleeting images, that fill... | |
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T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast, And force them sit till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art, That each may find its most propitious... 
