 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,...  Letters - Page 277by William Cowper - 1836Full view - About this book
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 458 pages
...perfectly at my command. But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by those very myrtles, by a double row...from them all, and devote this hour entirely to you. there are so many miles interposed between us. He spends part of the day with us to-morrow. A dissenter,... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 pages
...perfectly at my command. But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by those very myrtles, by a double row...blossom, and by a bed of beans already in bloom ; and you we to consider it, if you please, as no small proof of my regard, that though you have so many powerful... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1817 - 324 pages
...perfectly at my command. But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by those very myrtles, by a double row...already in bloom ; and you are to consider it, if you * The Task appears to have been begun between the writing of this letter and that which immediately... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1835 - 726 pages
...perfectly at my command. But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by those very myrtles, by a double row...regard, that though you have so many powerful rivals, 1 disengage myself from them all, and devote this hour entirely to you. You are not acquainted with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...being called upon by those very myrtles, by a double ' ' ' »"Yiile Poems. •• •• •• • row of grass pinks just beginning to blossom, and...I disengage myself from them all, and devote this hoiir entirely to you. ' You are not acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Bull of TSfeVport — perhaps it... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1851 - 790 pages
...perfectly at my command. But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by those very myrtles, by a double row...please, as no small proof of my regard, that, though you tyive so many powerful rivals, 1 disengage myself from them all, and devote this hour entirely to you.... | |
 | William Cowper - English letters - 1884 - 356 pages
...perfectly at my command. But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by those very myrtles, by a double row...to consider it, if you please, as no small proof of ray regard, that though you have so many powerful rivals, I disengage myself from them all, and devote... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English literature - 1892 - 344 pages
...at my command. But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention beingcalled upon by those very myrtles, by a double row of grass...from them all, and devote this hour entirely to you.' Later still — a year later — he writes to Newton : ' My greenhouse is never so pleasant as when... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 pages
...the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by those very myrtles, by a row of grass pinks just beginning to blossom, and...from them all and devote this hour entirely to you." In yet another letter (to Mr. Newton, September 18, 1784) he makes a charming allusion to his favourite... | |
 | Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway - Agriculture - 1897 - 416 pages
...But the beauties of the spot are themselves an interruption, my attention being called upon by these very myrtles, by a double row of grass pinks, just...blossom, and by a bed of beans already in bloom." And so I find it. Seated in the Botanic Gardens, for instance, I have tried to fix my attention on the... | |
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