 | Barnaby (uncle, fict. name.) - 1799
...Proprietor of all adapts his instruments to the work which he has appointed for them to perform. " God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill." My uncle's second rule was, "Apply them rightly." It is not merely bringing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 420 pages
...envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to ev'ry man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That...him into life; and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t' enlarge upon, an... | |
 | William Cowper - 1801 - 231 pages
...Some must te great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God girts to ev'ry man The virti'e, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life; and lets him fall Just in the niche he was orduin'd to Jill. To the deliverer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue C enlarge upon, on heartTo... | |
 | William Cowper, John Newton - Poetry - 1802
...envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to ev'ry man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That...him into life ; and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. ' Mignonette. To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t' enlarge... | |
 | Mark Akenside, John Armstrong, James Beattie, William Cowper - Poetry - 1802 - 288 pages
...offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, 796 That lifts him into life ; and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliverer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, an... | |
 | William Cowper - Poetry - 1806
...his attempts, or envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents.. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche, he was ordained to fill. To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, an... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806
...Thwart his attempts, or envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The .virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him intoTife, and lets him fall Just in the niche, he was ordained to nil. To the deliverer of an injured... | |
 | British poets - 1809
...envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to ev'ry man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Jast in the niche, he was ordain'd to fill* To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t'... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Criticism - 1810 - 193 pages
...Thwart his attempts, or envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t' enlarge upon, an... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810
...his atttempts, or envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche, he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t' enlarge upon, a heart... | |
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Some must be great : great offices will have Great talents : and God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. 
