The Correspondence of William Cowper: Arranged in Chronological Order, 第 4 巻Hodder and Stoughton, 1904 - 497 ページ |
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Adieu affectionate answer arrived Bagot believe Bodham Charlotte Smith comfort Courtenay cousin COWPER dear friend DEAR FRIEND,-I dear Sir DEAR SIR,-I DEAREST distress Eartham expect favour feel Gauntlett give glad happy Hill Homer honour hope Hurdis Iliad JAMES HURDIS John Johnson JOHN NEWTON John Throckmorton Johnny journey July July 27 June June 12 June 23 Killingworth kind King labour Lady Hesketh lately laudanum least Lord Milton morning Mundesley never Newton night Norfolk obliged occasion Olney partially perhaps pleasure poem poet poor prayers present reason received rejoice SAMUEL ROSE SAMUEL TEEDON seems sent Sept sincerely Southey spirits suppose tell thank thing thou Throckmorton translation truly Unpublished Unwin verse W. C. TO SAMUEL Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY Weston wish words write yesterday
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132 ページ - Others, more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall By doom of battle, and complain that Fate Free Virtue should enthrall to Force or Chance.
267 ページ - ... by the Isle of Wight, which may also be seen plainly from the window of the library in which I am writing. It pleased God to carry us both through the journey with far less difficulty and inconvenience than I expected. I began it • indeed with a thousand fears, and when we arrived the first evening at Bamet, found myself oppressed in spirit to a degree that could hardly be exceeded.
412 ページ - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
369 ページ - I have read the critique of my work in the Analytical Review, and am happy to have fallen into the hands of a critic, rigorous enough indeed, but a scholar, and a man of sense, and who does not deliberately intend me mischief. I am better pleased indeed that he censures some things than I should have been with unmixed commendation, for his censure (to use the new diplomatic term) will accredit his praiues.
462 ページ - This seems the sound of my own voice reflected to me from a distance, I have so often had the same thought and desire. A day scarcely passes at this season of the year when I do not contemplate the trees so soon to be stript, and say, perhaps I shall never see you clothed again ; every year as it passes makes this expectation more reasonable, and the year, with me, cannot be very distant when the event will verify it. Well — may God grant us a good hope of arriving in due time where the leaves...
164 ページ - I was occupied, or ought to have been, in the study of the law ; from thirty-three to sixty, I have spent my time in the country, where my reading has been only an apology for idleness, and where, when I had not either a magazine or a review, I was sometimes a carpenter, at others a bird-cage maker, or a gardener, or a drawer of landscapes. At fifty years of age I commenced an author ; ' — it is a whim that has served me longest, and best, and will probably be my last.
271 ページ - The inland scene is equally beautiful, consisting of a large and deep valley well cultivated, and enclosed by magnificent hills, all crowned with wood. I had, for my part, no conception that a poet could be the owner of such a Paradise ; and his house is as elegant as his scenes are charming.
160 ページ - I feel the loss of them, and shall feel it, since kinder or more friendly treatment I never can receive at any hands, than I have always found at theirs. But it has long been a foreseen change, and was, indeed, almost daily expected long before it happened. The desertion of the Hall, however, will not be total. The second brother, George, now Mr. Courtenay,* intends to reside there ; and with him, as with his elder brother, I have always been on terms the most agreeable.
491 ページ - I will forget, for a moment, that to whomsoever I may address myself, a letter from me can no otherwise be welcome than as a curiosity. To you, sir, I address this ; urged to it by extreme penury of employment, and the desire I feel to learn something of what is doing, and has been done, at Weaton (my beloved Weston !), since I left it.
405 ページ - Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals.