William Cowper Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Poetry, Mechanic

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 654 (on Pope)

• The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

  William Cowper

  Art, Passion, Poetry

• Poor England! thou art a devoted deer,
  Beset with every ill but that of fear.
  The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey;
  They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

  William Cowper

  Art, Deer, England

• Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

  William Cowper

  Art, Eye, Cheat

  William Cowper, John Bruce (F.S.A.) (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.49

• But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

  William Cowper

  God, Art, Crowns

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.58

• Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?

  William Cowper

  Success, Art, Battle

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.63

• Blest be the art that can immortalize.

  William Cowper

  Art, Immortality

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: The task. Tirocinium. Miscellaneous poems. Adam: a sacred drama, tr. from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini”, p.283

• Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
  To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Modest, Virgins

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems”, p.76

• Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

  William Cowper

  Art, Farewell, Sound

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1849). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author”, p.484

• Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

  William Cowper

  Art, Painting, Quench

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1837). “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”, p.65

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