The Correspondence of William Cowper: Arranged in Chronological Order, 第 3 巻Hodder and Stoughton, 1904 |
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Adieu affectionate agreeable amusement answer arrived assure believe Bodham called comfort compliments copy COWPER dear friend DEAR FRIEND,-I dear Madam dearest cousin dined expect favour feel Frog Gayhurst Gentleman's Magazine George Throckmorton give glad happy hear heard HESKETH The Lodge Homer honour hope Iliad JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind King labour LADY HESKETH lately least letter live London mean mention mind morning neighbours never obliged occasion Odyssey Olney once opportunity perhaps Pertenhall pleasure poem poet poor possible present reason received rejoice respects SAMUEL ROSE seems seen sensible sent soon spirits suppose tell thanks thee thing thou Throck Throckmorton told translating Homer translation truly truth Unwin verses W. C. TO LADY walk WALTER BAGOT Weston Underwood whole wish write wrote yesterday
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225 ページ - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those have pass'd away.
17 ページ - you will not quote Solomon, my dearest cousin, I will. He says, and as beautiful as truly—' Hope deferred maketh the heart sick, but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of
84 ページ - constrain us to detest The day that gave them birth ; Not so when Stella's natal morn Revolving months restore, We can rejoice that she was born, And wish her born once more ! If you like it, use it : if not, you know the remedy. It is serious, yet epigrammatic,—like a bishop at a ball ! WC
145 ページ - and have read them twice ; and though they be written in a language that is new to me, and many of them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them on the whole a very extraordinary production. He is I believe the only poet these kingdoms have produced in the lower rank of life since Shakespeare,
144 ページ - My fever is not yet gone, but sometimes seems to leave me. It is altogether of the nervous kind, and attended, now and then, with much dejection. A young gentleman called here yesterday, who came six miles out of his way to see me. He was on a journey to London from Glasgow, having just left
460 ページ - you mention, whatever wreath beside may hereafter adorn them ! It would be a leaden extinguisher clapped on all the fire of my genius, and I should never more produce a line worth reading. To speak seriously, it would make me miserable, and therefore I am sure that thou, of all my friends, wouldst least wish me to wear
436 ページ - Bodham, Balls, or Johnson, or by whatever name distinguished. Mrs. Hewitt has particular claims upon me ; she was my playfellow at Berkhamstead, and has a share in my warmest affections. Pray tell her so ! Neither do I at all forget my Cousin Harriet She and I have been many a time merry at Catfield,
47 ページ - must know that I should not love you half so well, if I did not believe you would be my friend to eternity. There is not room enough for friendship to unfold itself in full bloom, in such a nook of life as this. Therefore I am, and must, and will
142 ページ - I walk constantly, that is to say, Mrs. Unwin and I together ; for at these times I keep her continually employed, and never suffer her to be absent from me many minutes. She gives me all her time, and all her attention, and forgets that there is another object in the world.
454 ページ - verily, better than most. He had a sad task imposed on him, but no man could acquit himself of such a one with more discretion, or with more tenderness. The death of the unfortunate young man reminded me of those lines in Lycidas, ' It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine !