Reveries are "flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought" and don't attain "to the dignity of thought"
Retirement
At least 24 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1782, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1790, 1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Poems by William Cowper</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IMcNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004792651.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837).<br>
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Reading <u>The Poems of William Cowper</u>, 3 vols. ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (Oxford: Oxford UP: 1980), I, pp. 378-398.