The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, 第 1 巻J. Seagrave, 1803 - 413 ページ |
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... interesting should be produced with all becoming dispatch ; not only to render due honour to the dead , but to alleviate the regret of a nation taking a just , and liberal pride in the reputation of a Poet , who had obtained , and de ...
... interesting should be produced with all becoming dispatch ; not only to render due honour to the dead , but to alleviate the regret of a nation taking a just , and liberal pride in the reputation of a Poet , who had obtained , and de ...
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... interesting language . — Per- haps no man ever possessed the powers of description in a higher degree , both in verse and prose . By weaving into the texture of these Me- moirs , an extensive selection of his private Letters , and ...
... interesting language . — Per- haps no man ever possessed the powers of description in a higher degree , both in verse and prose . By weaving into the texture of these Me- moirs , an extensive selection of his private Letters , and ...
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... interesting to society in general , and to your Lordship in particular ! the truth I mean is expressed in the final Verse of an Epitaph , which the hand of friendship inscribed to your excellent Relation : " His Virtues form'd the Magic ...
... interesting to society in general , and to your Lordship in particular ! the truth I mean is expressed in the final Verse of an Epitaph , which the hand of friendship inscribed to your excellent Relation : " His Virtues form'd the Magic ...
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... as her province is , to speak of a more interesting individual , or to select a subject on which it may be more difficult to satisfy a variety of readers . readers . In feeling all the weight of this difficulty 6 LIFE OF COWPER .
... as her province is , to speak of a more interesting individual , or to select a subject on which it may be more difficult to satisfy a variety of readers . readers . In feeling all the weight of this difficulty 6 LIFE OF COWPER .
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... interesting character . Reserved as he was , to an extraordinary and painful degree , his heart and mind were yet admirably fashioned by nature for all the refined intercourse , and confidential delights both of friendship and of love ...
... interesting character . Reserved as he was , to an extraordinary and painful degree , his heart and mind were yet admirably fashioned by nature for all the refined intercourse , and confidential delights both of friendship and of love ...
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acquaintance Adieu admirable affection affectionate affliction agreeable amiable amusement appears attention beautiful believe beloved Cousin blank verse blessing Brother cerning comfort Cowper DEAR COUSIN DEAR FRIEND DEAR JOE dearest Cousin delight Esqr expect feel finished friendship Gentleman's Magazine George Throckmorton give glad grace happy Hartford hear heard heart Homer honor hope Huntingdon Iliad John Gilpin JOSEPH HILL kind labour Lace-makers Lady Austen Lady HESKETH lately least LETTER LETTER live Lodge Lord manner March 11 matter mind morning neighbours never Newton obliged occasion Olney once pain Park-House perhaps pleased pleasure Poem Poet poetical Poetry present prove reason received recollect river Ouse SAMUEL ROSE scene Scripture seems sensible sent spirits suppose sure tell tender thank thee thing thought Throckmorton transcribe Translation truth Unwin verse W. C. LETTER walk Weston wish write wrote
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1 ページ - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or...
127 ページ - With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
55 ページ - ... we separate and amuse ourselves as we please. During that interval I either read in my own apartment, or walk, or ride, or work in the garden. We seldom sit an hour after dinner, but if the weather permits adjourn to the garden, where with Mrs. Unwin and her son I have generally the pleasure of religious conversation till teatime.
1 ページ - Tis now become a history little known That once we called the pastoral house our own Short-lived possession! but the record fair That memory keeps, of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
103 ページ - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning, the court will never condemn, That the Spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
259 ページ - Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him ; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him.
140 ページ - I WRITE in a nook that I call my Boudoir. It is a summer-house not much bigger than a sedan chair, the door of which opens into the garden, that is now crowded with pinks, roses, and honey-suckles, and the window into my neighbour's orchard. It formerly served an apothecary, now dead, as a smoking-room ; and under my feet is a trap-door, which once covered a hole in the ground, where he kept his bottles. At present however it is dedicated to sublimer uses.
24 ページ - They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none.
38 ページ - He is a man of learning and good sense, and as simple as parson Adams. His wife has a very uncommon understanding, has read much to excellent purpose, and is more polite than a duchess.
347 ページ - Mother is dear to me, and you the Daughter of her Brother, are but one remove distant from her : I love you, therefore, and, love you much, both for her sake, and for your own. The world could not have furnished you with a present So acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me.