The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley, Zväzok 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Strana iv
... delight and inte- rest in the merit and the reputation of his writings , and lastly that generous attachment to her afflicted Relation , which induced her to watch over his disordered health , in a period of its most calamitous ...
... delight and inte- rest in the merit and the reputation of his writings , and lastly that generous attachment to her afflicted Relation , which induced her to watch over his disordered health , in a period of its most calamitous ...
Strana x
... delight . There is a principle of unperishable vitality ( if I may use such an expression ) in the compositions of Cowper ; which must ensure to them in future ages , what we have seen them so happily acquire and maintain in the present ...
... delight . There is a principle of unperishable vitality ( if I may use such an expression ) in the compositions of Cowper ; which must ensure to them in future ages , what we have seen them so happily acquire and maintain in the present ...
Strana xiv
... name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nurs'ry floor , And where the gardner Robin day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapt In scarlet LIFE OF COWPER .
... name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nurs'ry floor , And where the gardner Robin day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapt In scarlet LIFE OF COWPER .
Strana xv
William Cowper William Hayley. Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapt In scarlet mantle warm , and velvet capt , ' Tis now become a history little known , That once we call'd the past'ral house our own . Short - liv'd possession ...
William Cowper William Hayley. Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapt In scarlet mantle warm , and velvet capt , ' Tis now become a history little known , That once we call'd the past'ral house our own . Short - liv'd possession ...
Strana xvi
... delight in contemplating the best affections of our nature , will ever admire the tender sensibility with which the Poet has acknowledged his obligations to this amiable mother , in a poem composed more than 50 years after her decease ...
... delight in contemplating the best affections of our nature , will ever admire the tender sensibility with which the Poet has acknowledged his obligations to this amiable mother , in a poem composed more than 50 years after her decease ...
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acquaintance admirable affection affectionate amiable amusement appears April 17 attention beautiful blessing Bodham brother character comfortable Cowper DEAR COUSIN DEAR FRIEND dearest Cousin degree delight Esqr feel friendship genius give graceful happy heart Homer honour honour of Scotland hope Huntingdon Iliad interesting John Gilpin John Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind labour Lace-makers Lady Austen Lady Hesketh least LETTER LETTER live Lodge Lord March 11 mind nature neighbours never Newton obliged occasion Olney painful Park-House peculiar perhaps pleased pleasure Poem Poet poetical poetry powers praise present prove racters Reader reason received recollect river Ouse Samuel Rose scene Scripture seems sensible sent shew spirit suppose sure talents tell tender thee thing thou thought Throckmorton tion Translation truth Unwin verse virtues Volume W. C. LETTER walk Weston WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write
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Strana 100 - Toll for the Brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock : She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Strana 77 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Strana xviii - They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none.
Strana 76 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Strana 227 - Alas ! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him.
Strana 195 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Strana 12 - He is a man of learning and good sense, and as simple as parson Adams. His wife has a very uncommon understanding, has read much to excellent purpose, and is more polite than a duchess.