The life and letters of William Cowper, 3. kötet1809 |
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7. oldal
... course of his life , in his new si- tuation , ( the spot most pleasing to his fancy ! ) will be best described by the subsequent series of his let- ters to that amiable relation , to whom he considered himself as chiefly indebted for ...
... course of his life , in his new si- tuation , ( the spot most pleasing to his fancy ! ) will be best described by the subsequent series of his let- ters to that amiable relation , to whom he considered himself as chiefly indebted for ...
14. oldal
... course escape the most diligent and attentive labourer in such a work . I ought to add , because it affords the best assurance of his zeal and fidelity , that he does not toil for hire , nor will accept of any premium , but has entered 14.
... course escape the most diligent and attentive labourer in such a work . I ought to add , because it affords the best assurance of his zeal and fidelity , that he does not toil for hire , nor will accept of any premium , but has entered 14.
15. oldal
... course of the close application that I am forced to give to my author , I discover inadvertencies not a few ; some perhaps that have escaped even the commentators themselves , or perhaps in the enthu- siasm of their idolatry , they ...
... course of the close application that I am forced to give to my author , I discover inadvertencies not a few ; some perhaps that have escaped even the commentators themselves , or perhaps in the enthu- siasm of their idolatry , they ...
36. oldal
... course , so far as elisions are concerned , I have adopted as essential to my success . In every other respect I give as much variety in my measure as I can , I believe I may say as in ten syllables it is possible to give , shifting ...
... course , so far as elisions are concerned , I have adopted as essential to my success . In every other respect I give as much variety in my measure as I can , I believe I may say as in ten syllables it is possible to give , shifting ...
46. oldal
... course , to possess the com- forts that we find in it , as if we possessed them not , it is no easy matter to reduce this doctrine into practice . We forget that God who gave them , may , when he pleases , take them away ; and that ...
... course , to possess the com- forts that we find in it , as if we possessed them not , it is no easy matter to reduce this doctrine into practice . We forget that God who gave them , may , when he pleases , take them away ; and that ...
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Adieu affectionate amiable amusement answer attention beautiful believe blank verse Bodham comfort Cowper DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR DEAREST COUSIN DEAREST COZ death delight Eartham expect expression favor feel forget Gentleman's Magazine George Throckmorton give glad happy hear heard heart Homer honor hope Iliad JOHN JOHNSON Johnny JOSEPH HILL June June 15 kind labour Lady HESKETH learned least live Lodge London manner mean melancholy Milton mind morning neighbour nerally never obliged occasion Odyssey Olney once perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poor present reason received rejoice SAMUEL ROSE seems seen sensible sent soon spirits suffered suppose sure tell tender thank thee thing thou thought Throckmorton tion translation truth Unwin verse Villoison W. C. LETTER walk WALTER BAGOT Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write yesterday young
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405. oldal - That ere through age or woe I shed my wings I may record thy worth with honour due, In verse as musical as thou art true, And that immortalizes whom it sings: — But thou hast little need. There is a Book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light, On which the eyes of God not rarely look, A chronicle of actions just and bright — There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine ; And since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.
404. oldal - MARY ! I want a lyre with other strings, Such aid from Heaven as some have feigned they drew, An eloquence scarce given to mortals, new And undebased by praise of meaner things, That, ere through age or woe I shed...
228. oldal - The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt, had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where it is the last object that I see at night, and of course the first on which I open my eyes in the morning.
460. oldal - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
90. oldal - 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.
69. oldal - Poor Burns loses much of his deserved praise in this country, through our ignorance of his language. I despair of meeting with any Englishman who will take the pains that I have taken to understand him. His candle is bright, but shut up in a dark lantern.
460. oldal - ... person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does, because we are sure that some time or other we shall ourselves be in the same melancholy circumstances. The general, the statesman, or the philosopher, are perhaps characters which we may never act in, but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble.
66. oldal - Poems, and have read them twice ; and, though they be written in a language that is new to me, and many of them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them, on the whole, a very extraordinary production.
186. oldal - ... stile, what you said on that particular spot. For this reason I purpose, when the summer is come, to walk with a book in my pocket ; what I read at my fireside I forget, but what I read under a hedge, or at the side of a pond, that pond and that hedge will always bring to my remembrance ; and this is a sort of memoria technica, which I would recommend to you, if I did not know that you have no occasion for it.
90. oldal - ... him. The waggon has accordingly gone this day to Northampton loaded in part with my effusions in the mortuary style. A fig for poets who write epitaphs upon individuals ! I have written one, that serves two hundred persons.