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" My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. "
The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 357
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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...things. Then, too, there was no other distinguished poet on the field to compete with him. He says : " My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them....delineations of the heart are from my own experience." Southey says : " Were I to say, that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends, it would...
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Heads and tales; or, Anecdotes and stories of quadrupeds and other beasts

Adam White - 1870 - 378 pages
...he mourned, rise before us as though we had known and loved them too. As Cowper himself declares, ' My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them...experience, not one of them borrowed from books.' '' HAIRS OR HARES ! A gentleman on circuit, narrating to Lord Norbury some extravagant feat in sporting,...
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Cowper. The didactic poems of 1782, with selections from the minor ..., Volume 1

William Cowper - 1874 - 340 pages
...entitle me to nothing but a share in one common oblivion with them all.' And once more, to Unwin (1784): 'My delineations of the heart are from my own experience;...or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent resemblance, because at the...
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Didactic poems; Select minor poems

William Cowper - English poetry - 1874 - 346 pages
...entitle me to nothing but a share in one common oblivion with them all.' And once more, to Unwin (1784): 'My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent resemblance, because at the...
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Cowper: The didactic poems of 1782 with selections from the minor pieces, A ...

William Cowper - 1874 - 330 pages
...entitle me to nothing but a share in one common oblivion with them all.' And once more, to Unwin (1784): 'My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent resemblance, because at the...
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The task, with intr. and notes by F. Storr, Issue 710

William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...the Rev. W. Uuwin (Letter 175):— " My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them secondhand. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience. Not one of them borrowed from hooks, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as much as I could (for...
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Letters of William Cowper, a selection, with a sketch of his life and biogr ...

William Cowper - 1877 - 462 pages
...concessions I can, that I may please them ; but I will not please them at the expense of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder and...
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Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...descriptions,' he writes of The Task, ' are all from nature ; — not one 1 Jan. 5, 1782. . 2 Jan. 17, 1782. of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder and...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...he writes of The Task, ' are all from nature ; — not one 1 Jan 5, 1 78 a. Jan. il, 1782. — . , . of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder 'and...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...in spite of ourselves, just in the same proportion as we admire.' Again, referring to the Task : ' My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them...delineations of the heart are from my own experience; net one of them borrowed from b*oks, or in the least degree conjectural.' Objects hitherto regarded...
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