Life

Life’s a name

That nothing here can truly claim;

This wretched inn, where we scarce stay to bait,

We call our dwelling-place!

And mighty voyages we take,

And mighty journeys seem to make,

O’er sea and land, the little point that has no space.

Because we fight and battles gain,

Some captives call, and say, “the rest are slain”;

Because we heap up yellow earth, and so

Rich, valiant, wise, and virtuous seem to grow;

Because we draw a long nobility

From hieroglyphic proofs of heraldry-

We grow at last by Custom to believe,

That really we Live;

Whilst all these Shadows, that for Things we take,

Are but the empty Dreams which in Death’s sleep we make.

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External links

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Poems in English 

• On Hermocratia (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On Flaxman’s Penelope by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On Flatteries (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On Female Inconstancy (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On Envy (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On An Ugly Fellow (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On An Infant (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A True Friend (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Thief (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Similar Character (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Plant Of Virgin’s-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Miser (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Miser, 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper by William Cowper
• On A Good Man (From The Greek) by William Cowper by William Cowper

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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