The Life and Letters of William CowperLongman, Rees, and Company ; T. Cadell ; Baldwin and Cradock ; J. Booker ; Baynes and Son ; Hamilton, Adams and Company ; Whittaker and Company ; E. Hodgson ; Simpkin, Marshall and Company ; R. Mackie ; and W. Mason, 1835 - Authors, English - 664 pages |
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... desire and ambition to render them exactly such as I think most likely to gratify the conscious . spirit of Cowper himself , in a superior existence . The person who recommended it to his female relation to continue her exemplary regard ...
... desire and ambition to render them exactly such as I think most likely to gratify the conscious . spirit of Cowper himself , in a superior existence . The person who recommended it to his female relation to continue her exemplary regard ...
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... desire no more than that you would never drop me for any length of time together , for I shall then think you only write because something happened to put you in mind of me , or for some other reason equally mortifying . I am not ...
... desire no more than that you would never drop me for any length of time together , for I shall then think you only write because something happened to put you in mind of me , or for some other reason equally mortifying . I am not ...
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... desires to be affectionately remembered to you , and if you are in town about a fortnight hence , when he proposes to be there him- self , will take a breakfast with you . VII . - To LADY HESKETH . Huntingdon , August 24 LIFE OF COWPER .
... desires to be affectionately remembered to you , and if you are in town about a fortnight hence , when he proposes to be there him- self , will take a breakfast with you . VII . - To LADY HESKETH . Huntingdon , August 24 LIFE OF COWPER .
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... desire to hear from you , I should call you an idle correspondent if a post went by without bringing me a letter ; but I am not so unreason- able on the contrary , I think myself very happy in hearing from you upon your own terms , as ...
... desire to hear from you , I should call you an idle correspondent if a post went by without bringing me a letter ; but I am not so unreason- able on the contrary , I think myself very happy in hearing from you upon your own terms , as ...
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... desire him ; in short , when I had neither faith , nor love , nor any Christian grace whatever , but a thousand seeds of rebellion instead , evermore springing up in enmity against him . But blessed be God , even the God who is become ...
... desire him ; in short , when I had neither faith , nor love , nor any Christian grace whatever , but a thousand seeds of rebellion instead , evermore springing up in enmity against him . But blessed be God , even the God who is become ...
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acquaintance admirable affection affectionate affliction afford agreeable amiable amusement appears attended believe blank verse blessing character Christian comfort Cowper dear Cousin DEAR FRIEND delight desire divine epistle epistolary esteem expect expression favour feel friendship give glad grace happy hear heart Homer honour hope Huntingdon Iliad interest John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL labour lace-makers Lady Austen LADY HESKETH least letter live Lord Lord Hervey March 11 mean mercy mind mother nature never obliged occasion Olney opinion perhaps person Phalaris pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise present prove reader reason received recollect remember respect Scripture seems sensible soon spirit suppose sure talents tell tender thank thee thing thou thought Throckmorton translation truth verse volume W. C. MY DEAR Weston William Cowper WILLIAM UNWIN wish word write written wrote
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Page 543 - Thy spirits have a fainter flow, I see thee daily weaker grow ; 'Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary...
Page 576 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 553 - Nor, cruel as it seemed, could he Their haste himself condemn, Aware that flight, in such a sea, Alone could rescue them ; Yet bitter felt it still to die Deserted, and his friends so nigh. He long survives, who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld ; And so long he, with unspent power, His destiny repelled ; And ever, as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cried "Adieu...
Page 481 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Page 155 - With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went clown With twice four hundred men.
Page 362 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Page 553 - Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent.
Page 544 - Thy indistinct expressions seem Like language utter'd in a dream ; Yet me they charm, whate'er the theme, My Mary ! Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary ! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary! Partakers of thy sad decline Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet, gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary...
Page 97 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Page 3 - 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 mightst know me safe and warmly laid...