Life and works of Cowper, by R. SoutheyBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... cheerful when not thinking of his own condition , " and in his retaining his intellectual faculties in full vigour . There was this difference , that Browne , while he fancied himself deprived of all mental power , engaged willingly in ...
... cheerful when not thinking of his own condition , " and in his retaining his intellectual faculties in full vigour . There was this difference , that Browne , while he fancied himself deprived of all mental power , engaged willingly in ...
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... cheerfulness to the buds and the leaves that will soon appear , and say to myself , Till they turn yellow I will make myself easy . The year will go round , and January will approach . I shall tremble again , and I know it ; but in the ...
... cheerfulness to the buds and the leaves that will soon appear , and say to myself , Till they turn yellow I will make myself easy . The year will go round , and January will approach . I shall tremble again , and I know it ; but in the ...
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... cheerful and gay , and laughs de bon cœur upon the smallest provocation . Amidst all the little puritanical words ... cheerfulness and mirth ; and indeed , had she not , she could not have gone through all she has . I must say , too ...
... cheerful and gay , and laughs de bon cœur upon the smallest provocation . Amidst all the little puritanical words ... cheerfulness and mirth ; and indeed , had she not , she could not have gone through all she has . I must say , too ...
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... cheerfulness or vivacity in her : and she , too , had enlivened the spirits of Cowper , and animated his genius . The causes which broke up their intimacy with Lady Austen , were the same which had formerly suspended it . The fact was ...
... cheerfulness or vivacity in her : and she , too , had enlivened the spirits of Cowper , and animated his genius . The causes which broke up their intimacy with Lady Austen , were the same which had formerly suspended it . The fact was ...
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... cheerful spring , and endeavour to encourage me to hope for a spiritual change resembling it ; -but it will be lost labour . Nature revives again ; but a soul once slain lives no more . The hedge that has been appa- rently dead , is not ...
... cheerful spring , and endeavour to encourage me to hope for a spiritual change resembling it ; -but it will be lost labour . Nature revives again ; but a soul once slain lives no more . The hedge that has been appa- rently dead , is not ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquainted admiration Æneid amusement answer appeared beautiful blank verse called cause character Chaucer cheerful Churchill composed couplet cousin Cowper critic DEAR FRIEND diction Dryden effect English poetry expected expression favour feel felt friendship genius give happy Hayley heart Homer honour hope Iliad imitation intercourse John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON Johnson judgement kind labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh language laugh least letter literature lived March 19 melancholy ment metaphysical poet metre mind nature never Newton numbers occasion Olney once opinion passed perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet poetical Pope Pope's praise present published readers reason received remember reply respect rhyme says Cowper seems spirit stanza style suppose Surrey syllables Task taste thing thought tion translation truth Unwin versification volume Weston wish words write written wrote Zachary Grey