The Correspondence of William Cowper: Arranged in Chronological Order, 第 2 巻Hodder and Stoughton, 1904 |
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acquaintance Adieu admire affectionate agreeable amusement answer appeared Bagot believe blank verse Bull called character comfort consequently COWPER dear friend DEAR FRIEND,-I DEWSBURY doubt expect favour feel Gentleman's Magazine Georg Forster give glad hand happy heard heart Homer honour hope Iliad John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL labour Lady Austen LADY HESKETH least less letter live Lord Lord Dartmouth Madame Guyon matter mean mind minister morning mother never Newport Pagnell night obliged occasion Olney once opinion perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poor Pope possible present prove published reason received rejoice remember respect seems sensible sent soon sorry spirits suffered suppose tell thank thing thought tion told Towcester translation truly truth verse volume WILLIAM BULL WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM UNWIN wish word write wrote
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29 ページ - If I trifle, and merely trifle, it is because I am reduced to it by necessity — a melancholy, that nothing else so effectually disperses, engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and, but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all.
70 ページ - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
135 ページ - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
94 ページ - Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look; Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. " ' Twelve months are gone and over, And nine long tedious days; Why didst thou, venturous lover — Why didst thou trust the seas ? Cease, cease, thou cruel Ocean, And let my lover rest; Ah!
5 ページ - It is a sort of paradox, but it is true: we are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
184 ページ - We were sitting yesterday after dinner, the two ladies and myself, very composedly, and without the least apprehension of any such intrusion in our snug parlour, one lady knitting, the other netting, and the gentleman winding worsted, when...
464 ページ - I mention, the country will not be in complete beauty. And I will tell you what you shall find at your first entrance. Imprimis, As soon as you have entered the vestibule, if you cast a look on either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making. It is the box in which have been lodged all my hares, and in which lodges Puss at present.
255 ページ - If the work cannot boast a regular plan (in which respect, however, I do not think it altogether indefensible), it may yet boast that the reflections are naturally suggested always by the preceding passage ; and that, except the fifth book, which is rather of a political aspect, the whole has one tendency, — to discountenance the modern enthusiasm after a London life, and to recommend rural ease and leisure as friendly to the cause of piety and virtue.
76 ページ - A dissenter, but a liberal one ; a man of letters and of genius; master of a fine imagination, or rather not master of it, — an imagination which, when he finds himself in the company he loves, and can confide in, runs away with him into such fields of speculation, as amuse and enliven every other imagination that has the happiness to be of the party. At other times he has a tender and delicate sort of melancholy in his disposition, not less agreeable in its way. No men are better qualified for...
306 ページ - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where...