William Cowper Quote

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.


Beauties of Cowper: To which are Prefixed, a Life of the Author and Observations on His Writings (ed. 1801)


We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.