The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, 第 1 巻Saunders & Otley, 1835 |
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... consider it to be the duty of a biographer rather to sink , in tender silence , than to proclaim , with circumstan- tial and offensive temerity , the minute particulars of a calamity , to which all human beings are ex- posed , and ...
... consider it to be the duty of a biographer rather to sink , in tender silence , than to proclaim , with circumstan- tial and offensive temerity , the minute particulars of a calamity , to which all human beings are ex- posed , and ...
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... consider the calamity of which I am now speaking ; and of which , like his illustrious brother of Parnassus , the younger Tasso , he was occasionally a most affecting example . Providence appears to have given a striking lesson to ...
... consider the calamity of which I am now speaking ; and of which , like his illustrious brother of Parnassus , the younger Tasso , he was occasionally a most affecting example . Providence appears to have given a striking lesson to ...
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... consider the effect it has had upon me , I am exceedingly thankful for it , and , without hypocrisy , esteem it the ... considering my very distant removal from every friend I have in the world - a circum- stance which , before this ...
... consider the effect it has had upon me , I am exceedingly thankful for it , and , without hypocrisy , esteem it the ... considering my very distant removal from every friend I have in the world - a circum- stance which , before this ...
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... consider we have not met , even by letter , almost these two years , which will ac- count , in some measure , for my pestering you in this manner ; besides my last was no answer to yours , and therefore I consider myself as still in ...
... consider we have not met , even by letter , almost these two years , which will ac- count , in some measure , for my pestering you in this manner ; besides my last was no answer to yours , and therefore I consider myself as still in ...
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... considering that I came hither for the sake of being near him , is rather too much . I wish that young man was better known in the family . He has as many good qualities as his nearest kindred could wish to find in him . As Mr. Quin ...
... considering that I came hither for the sake of being near him , is rather too much . I wish that young man was better known in the family . He has as many good qualities as his nearest kindred could wish to find in him . As Mr. Quin ...
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acquaintance affection affectionately affliction afford agreeable Alban's amusement answer appearance attend believe blessing brother character Christian church comfort Cousin-I Cowper dear cousin dear friend delight desire disciplined band divine doubt esteem expect faith favour feel Friend-I friendship give glad happy heart Hertfordshire honour hope House of Lords Huntingdon interest JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL June 18 kind labour LADY HESKETH least live Lord Lord George Gordon March 18 mean ments mercy mind mother nature never obliged occasion Olney Olney hymns perhaps piety pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poor pray present Private Correspondence reason received recollect remember respect Scripture seems sensible sorrow spirit suppose sure tender thank thee thing thou thought tion truth verses W. C. TO JOSEPH W. C. TO LADY Westminster school William Cowper WILLIAM UNWIN wish word write wrote
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24 ページ - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
3 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. Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
214 ページ - In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind.
3 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...
73 ページ - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
251 ページ - I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibul'lus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.
156 ページ - At present, the difference between them and me is greatly to their advantage. I delight in baubles, and know them to be so ; for rested in, and -viewed without a reference to their Author, what is the earth,— what are the planets, — what is the sun itself but a bauble? Better for a man never to have seen them, or to see them with the eyes of a brute, stupid and unconscious of what he beholds, than not to be able to say, " The Maker of all these wonders is my friend...
140 ページ - It is like that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the. Dorian flute. Variety without end and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil.
136 ページ - If government should impose another tax upon that commodity I hardly know a business in which a gentleman might more successfully employ himself. A Chinese, of ten times my fortune, would avail himself of such an opportunity without scruple ; and why should not I, who want money as much as any mandarin in China ? Rousseau would have been charmed to have seen me so occupied, and would have exclaimed with rapture, " that he had found the Emilius who (he supposed) had subsisted only in his own idea.
270 ページ - ... tis only her plan to catch, if she can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way, by a production, on a new construction ; she has baited her...