The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems, Corrsepondence, and Translations with a Life of the Author, by the Editor, Robert Southey, Volume 4Baldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... poetical export than I do with you , and I believe you have reason : the truth is this ; -If I walked the streets with a fiddle under my arm , I should never think of performing before the window of a Privy Counsellor , or a Chief ...
... poetical export than I do with you , and I believe you have reason : the truth is this ; -If I walked the streets with a fiddle under my arm , I should never think of performing before the window of a Privy Counsellor , or a Chief ...
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... POETICAL reports of law cases are not very common , yet it seems to me desirable that they should be so . Many advantages would accrue from such a measure . They would in the first place be more commodiously deposited in the memory ...
... POETICAL reports of law cases are not very common , yet it seems to me desirable that they should be so . Many advantages would accrue from such a measure . They would in the first place be more commodiously deposited in the memory ...
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... poetical law case of " Nose , plaintiff - Eyes , defendants , " before referred to . have not spirits to enable me to make excursions on 60 COWPER'S LEtters . To the Rev William Unwin Jan 14 John Cross's rule Thelyphthora.
... poetical law case of " Nose , plaintiff - Eyes , defendants , " before referred to . have not spirits to enable me to make excursions on 60 COWPER'S LEtters . To the Rev William Unwin Jan 14 John Cross's rule Thelyphthora.
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... poetical prediction , and Sir Joshua will have nothing to do but to record the completion of a prophecy which is the more respectable , because when first delivered , it seemed so very improbable . Re- bellion it should seem must soon ...
... poetical prediction , and Sir Joshua will have nothing to do but to record the completion of a prophecy which is the more respectable , because when first delivered , it seemed so very improbable . Re- bellion it should seem must soon ...
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... poetical matter , but which , for want of a something I am not able to describe , I cannot at present proceed with . The name of it is " Retirement , " and my purpose , to recommend the proper improvement of it , to set forth the ...
... poetical matter , but which , for want of a something I am not able to describe , I cannot at present proceed with . The name of it is " Retirement , " and my purpose , to recommend the proper improvement of it , to set forth the ...
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Æsop affectionate afford agreeable amusement answer August 25 believe called character comfort connexion COWPER DEAR FRIEND dear Sir deserve desire Dewsbury doubt effect esteem expect favour feel Fête Champêtre franks friendship furnish gentleman give glad happy hear heard honour hope Hoxton Inner Temple intended JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL judgement July 22 labour lace-makers lady late Latin least less lest letter lines live London Lord Lord Dartmouth love attends Madam Madame Guyon Madan means mentioned mind mother never obliged occasion Olney opinion opportunity perhaps piece pleased pleasure poem poet poetical polygamy poor possible present proof propriety prove reason received recollect rejoice respect Scripture seems sent spirits suppose sure taste thank thing thought Tibullus tion truth verse Vincent Bourne volume weary WILLIAM BULL WILLIAM UNWIN wish write wrote
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Page 272 - 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.
Page 112 - I have writ Charity, not for popularity, but as well as I could, in hopes to do good ; and if the Reviewer, should say, " to be sure, the gentleman's Muse wears Methodist shoes, you may know by her pace and talk about grace, that she and her bard have little regard for the taste and fashions, and ruling passions, and...
Page 38 - Gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible, that a people who resembled us so little in their taste, should resemble us in any thing else.
Page 2 - 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!
Page 278 - 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 companions...
Page 2 - If every human being upon earth could think for one quarter of an hour as I have done for many years, there might perhaps be many miserable men among them, but not an unawakened one could be found from the arctic to the antarctic circle. At present, the difference between them and me is greatly to their advantage.
Page 43 - Lethean gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire, There goes my lady, and there goes the 'squire ; There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
Page 38 - In about five minutes a voice on the outside of the parlour door inquired if one of my hares had got away. I immediately rushed into the next room and found that my poor favourite Puss had made her escape. She had gnawed in sunder the strings of a...
Page 236 - Prove to me that I have a right to pray, and I will pray without ceasing; yes, and praise too, even in the belly of this hell, compared with which Jonah's was a palace, a temple of the living God. But let me add, there is no encouragement in the Scripture so comprehensive as to include my case, nor any consolation so effectual as to reach it.
Page 277 - But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption ; my attention is called upon by those very myrtles, by a double row of grass pinks just beginning to blossom, and by a bed of beans already in bloom ; and you are to consider it, if you please, as no small proof of my regard, that though you have so many powerful rivals, I disengage myself from them all, and devote this hour entirely to you.