The Works of William Cowper: The life of William Cowper. Letters, 1765-1783Fraser & Company, 1835 |
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... Cowper thus represents his poetical labours as the only relief which proved certainly and permanently efficacious against his fearful malady . seminary . When this removal took place is not exactly WILLIAM COWPER . 9.
... Cowper thus represents his poetical labours as the only relief which proved certainly and permanently efficacious against his fearful malady . seminary . When this removal took place is not exactly WILLIAM COWPER . 9.
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... labours profited by his aid , he was intimate with Churchill the satirist , and boarded in the same house with Cumberland the dramatist , though these friendships were not afterwards much cultivated . With Thurlow , the future ...
... labours profited by his aid , he was intimate with Churchill the satirist , and boarded in the same house with Cumberland the dramatist , though these friendships were not afterwards much cultivated . With Thurlow , the future ...
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... labours as a translator , we are inclined to think that Cowper was not so deeply versed . We learn , indeed , from an incidental remark to one of his friends , that he had read in early life both the poems of Homer , and that they were ...
... labours as a translator , we are inclined to think that Cowper was not so deeply versed . We learn , indeed , from an incidental remark to one of his friends , that he had read in early life both the poems of Homer , and that they were ...
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... labours of Cowper's pen . On his melancholy removal to the country , as he informs this fair correspondent , his books and papers were forgotten , and though a friend , long afterwards , restored the former , the latter , which filled ...
... labours of Cowper's pen . On his melancholy removal to the country , as he informs this fair correspondent , his books and papers were forgotten , and though a friend , long afterwards , restored the former , the latter , which filled ...
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... labours of the illustrious course Far other than the unaided force Of human vigour ask . To arm against repeated ill The patient heart too brave to feel The tortures of despair ; Nor safer yet high - crested pride , When wealth flows in ...
... labours of the illustrious course Far other than the unaided force Of human vigour ask . To arm against repeated ill The patient heart too brave to feel The tortures of despair ; Nor safer yet high - crested pride , When wealth flows in ...
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acquaintance admire affection affectionate affliction afterwards agreeable amusement appears believe blessing character cheerful Christian circumstances comfort commencement Cowper dear cousin DEAR FRIEND death distress Dr Johnson duty Eartham East Dereham edition faith favour feelings friendship genius give grace happy Hayley Hayley's heart Heaven Homer honour hope Huntingdon Iliad JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL labours Lady Austen Lady Hesketh laudanum least letter literary live Lord Martin Madan melancholy mercy Milton mind morning Narrative nature never Newport Pagnell Newton occasion oculist Olney Olney Hymns pain pleased pleasure poems poet poet's praise prayer present Private Correspondence prove reason religion religious religious conversation remark render Scripture seems sensible shew sorrow spirit St Albans St Mary Woolnoth thee thing thou thought tion translation truth Unwin verse Vincent Bourne Westminster Weston WILLIAM COWPER wish write youth
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5 ページ - Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learn'd at last submission to my lot, But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot.
166 ページ - And it seem'd, to a fanciful view, To weep for the buds it had left with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapp'd it, it fell to the ground. And such...
8 ページ - May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently I wish'd I long believed. And, disappointed still, was still deceived. By expectation every day beguiled, Dupe of to-morrow even from a child.
116 ページ - When one, that holds communion with the skies, Has filled his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings ; Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, That tells us whence his treasures are supplied.
87 ページ - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
263 ページ - The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest...
133 ページ - I have been reading Gray's works, and think him the only poet since Shakespeare entitled to the character of sublime. Perhaps you will remember that I once had a different opinion of him. I was prejudiced. He did not belong to our Thursday society, and was an Eton man, which lowered him prodigiously in our esteem. I once thought Swift's letters the best that could be written ; but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called, is never ill-natured or offensive, and...
30 ページ - Ah, my dear God ! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
23 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?
84 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.