The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence |
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... occasion to commend : With ease would pardon injuries receiv'd , Nor e'er was cheerful when another griev'd ; Despising state , with her own lot content , Enjoy'd the comforts of a life well spent ; Resign'd , when Heaven demanded back ...
... occasion to commend : With ease would pardon injuries receiv'd , Nor e'er was cheerful when another griev'd ; Despising state , with her own lot content , Enjoy'd the comforts of a life well spent ; Resign'd , when Heaven demanded back ...
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... occasion of a public burlesque performance , the relation of which would not accord with the design of this undertaking . He who aims at nothing better than to amuse and divert , and to excite a laugh at the ex- pense of both taste and ...
... occasion of a public burlesque performance , the relation of which would not accord with the design of this undertaking . He who aims at nothing better than to amuse and divert , and to excite a laugh at the ex- pense of both taste and ...
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... occasion will appear from the following verses , which he wrote at the age of eighteen : and in which those who love to trace the rise and progress of genius will , I think , be pleased to remark the very promising seeds of those pe ...
... occasion will appear from the following verses , which he wrote at the age of eighteen : and in which those who love to trace the rise and progress of genius will , I think , be pleased to remark the very promising seeds of those pe ...
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... occasion of writing to you , which is all I have waited for . My friends must excuse me if I write to none but those who lay it fairly in my way to do so . The inference I am apt to draw from their silence is , that they wish me to be ...
... occasion of writing to you , which is all I have waited for . My friends must excuse me if I write to none but those who lay it fairly in my way to do so . The inference I am apt to draw from their silence is , that they wish me to be ...
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... occasion to advert . But in the midst of these pious duties he forgot not his distant friends , and particular- ly his amiable relation and correspondent , of the Park - house , near Hertford . The follow- ing letter to that lady has no ...
... occasion to advert . But in the midst of these pious duties he forgot not his distant friends , and particular- ly his amiable relation and correspondent , of the Park - house , near Hertford . The follow- ing letter to that lady has no ...
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acquaintance admire affection affectionate afford agreeable amusement attend believe blank verse blessing called cause character Christian comfort Cowper dear cousin dear friend dear Friend,-I delight divine doubt expect favor feel friendship give glad grace happy hear heart Homer honor hope Huntingdon Iliad John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL July 12 kind labor Lady Austen LADY HESKETH least less letter live Lord Lord Thurlow March 11 means ment mercy mind never obliged occasion Olney Hymns once opinion perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetical possible present Private correspondence reason received recollect rejoice remember respect scene seems sensible sent sion spirit suppose sure taste tell thank thee things thou thought tion translation truth verse volume W. C. Olney Weston William Cowper WILLIAM UNWIN wish write wrote
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Page 122 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller.
Page 301 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 483 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 268 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 139 - 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 down With twice four hundred men.
Page 122 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Page 157 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 460 - At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more: For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear: And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But...
Page 460 - Nor, cruel as it seem'd, 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—
Page 152 - 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.