 | Thomas Wright - Poets, English - 1921 - 440 pages
...severest winters ever known, that of November, 1783 — March, 1784. " My descriptions," says Cowper, " are all from Nature — not one of them second-handed....borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." Cowper's letters contain many allusions to the works of the Marquis Carraccioli,1 with which he was... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...humanity he would sing from his heart. " My delineations of the heart," he writes to Unwin in 1784, " are from my own experience : not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." ' He did not generally choose highly coloured, romantic emotion, though at times, as in The Castaway,... | |
 | Ann Zwinger - Natural history - 2002 - 396 pages
...that ballasts my life, gives me joy, orders my reality. As William Cowper wrote two centuries ago: "My descriptions are all from nature: not one of them...from my own experience: not one of them borrowed, or in the least conjectural." Ann Haymond Zwinger Constant Friendship 1987 Acknowledgments Without... | |
 | Insanity (Law) - 1917 - 824 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...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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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. 
