The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley, Zväzok 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Strana 66
... thank you for so full an answer to so empty an epistle . If Olney furnished any thing for your amusement you should have it in return , but occurrences here are as scarce as Cucumbers at Christmas . I visited St. Albans about a ...
... thank you for so full an answer to so empty an epistle . If Olney furnished any thing for your amusement you should have it in return , but occurrences here are as scarce as Cucumbers at Christmas . I visited St. Albans about a ...
Strana 67
... thank him that he has given me such a deep impressed persuasion of this awful truth , as a thousand worlds would not purchase from me . It gives a relish to every blessing , and makes every trouble light . Affectionately yours , W. C. ...
... thank him that he has given me such a deep impressed persuasion of this awful truth , as a thousand worlds would not purchase from me . It gives a relish to every blessing , and makes every trouble light . Affectionately yours , W. C. ...
Strana 68
... thank you for your continued re- membrance of me , and shall not cease to be their and your Affectionate Friend and Servant , W. COWPER . His retirement was ennobled by many private acts of beneficence , and his exemplary virtue was ...
... thank you for your continued re- membrance of me , and shall not cease to be their and your Affectionate Friend and Servant , W. COWPER . His retirement was ennobled by many private acts of beneficence , and his exemplary virtue was ...
Strana 72
... thanking you for yours , and of assuring you that instead of being surprized at your silence , I rather wonder that you , or any of my friends , have any room left for so careless and negligent a correspondent in your memories . I am ...
... thanking you for yours , and of assuring you that instead of being surprized at your silence , I rather wonder that you , or any of my friends , have any room left for so careless and negligent a correspondent in your memories . I am ...
Strana 82
... thank him , because he might have done all , that he was pleased to do for him , and yet have afforded him neither strength nor op- portunity to declare it . I doubt not that he enlightens the under- standings , and works a gracious ...
... thank him , because he might have done all , that he was pleased to do for him , and yet have afforded him neither strength nor op- portunity to declare it . I doubt not that he enlightens the under- standings , and works a gracious ...
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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.