 | William Cowper - 1896 - 196 pages
...written at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of somebody indeed origina1."i And again: "My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectura1. In my numbers ... I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent... | |
 | William Cowper - 1898 - 334 pages
...homage which Vice pays to Virtue " (Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 223). 53 108. I was a stricken deer. " My delineations of the heart are from my own experience,...borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural " (letter to Unwin, Oct. 10, 1784). 54 150 A reference to the sciences of geology and astronomy as... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...felt, and thought. " My descriptions," he said, " are all from nature ; not one of them second-hand. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...borrowed from books or in the least degree conjectural." Engraved by William Walker and Samuel CouHinn, from the painting by Alexander doae in 1787. ROBERT... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...pretend a better." Of the plan, purpose, and form of the ' Task ' Cowper likewise tells us : — " My descriptions are all from nature — not one of...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...word means anything. ' My descriptions,' he writes of The Task, 'are all from nature ; — not or« 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... | |
 | Arthur Max Hantsche - Nature in literature - 1901 - 160 pages
...»My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them is second-handed. My deliniations of the hcart are from my own experience, not one of them borrowed from books or in the last degree conjectural.« (V, 87.; Gleichsam sein poetisches Glaubensbekenntnis legt er in der tTask«... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1906 - 628 pages
...descriptions,' he writes of The Task, ' are all from nature ; — not one 1 Jan. 5, 1782. a 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...to recommend them!" — Letter to Johnson, his publisher, undated. "My descriptions [in "The Task") are all from nature: not one of them second-handed....conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as much as I conM (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder and string), I have 1mitated... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1912 - 556 pages
...concessions I can, that I may please them, but I will not please them at the expense of conscience. My descriptions are all from nature : not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart axe from my own experience : not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.... | |
 | James Alexander Roy - Poets, English - 1914 - 196 pages
...stands, backward looking and forward looking. delineations of the heart are from my own experiences ; not one of them borrowed from books or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could ... I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent... | |
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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. 
