Lord Cowper

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or cowper:

“Now, Penshurst, they that will proportion thee
With other edifices, when they see
Those proud, ambitious heaps, and nothing else,
May say, their lords have built, but thy lord dwells.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

“Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heav’n before our eyes.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)