Quote #78
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
More from William Cowper
- Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
- Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
- From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
- So manifold, all pleasing in their kind, All healthful, are the employs of rural life, Reiterated as the wheel of time, Runs round; still e…
- Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
- Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn T…
- Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed; And still are disappointed.
- 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.