The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, 1. kötetJ. Seagrave, 1803 - 413 oldal |
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... lately been just enough indisposed to convince me , that not only human life in general , but mine in particular , hangs by a slender thread . I am stout enough in appearance , yet a little illness demolishes me . I have had a severe ...
... lately been just enough indisposed to convince me , that not only human life in general , but mine in particular , hangs by a slender thread . I am stout enough in appearance , yet a little illness demolishes me . I have had a severe ...
95. oldal
... lately sent a Petition from hence to Lord Dartmouth ; I signed it , and am sure the contents are true . The purport of it was to inform him , that there are very near 1200 Lace - makers in this beggarly town , the most of whom had ...
... lately sent a Petition from hence to Lord Dartmouth ; I signed it , and am sure the contents are true . The purport of it was to inform him , that there are very near 1200 Lace - makers in this beggarly town , the most of whom had ...
98. oldal
... lately , are trembling as they stand before the point of it . I have talked more already than I have formerly done in three visits , you remember my taciturnity , never to be forgotten by those who knew me ; not to depart entirely from ...
... lately , are trembling as they stand before the point of it . I have talked more already than I have formerly done in three visits , you remember my taciturnity , never to be forgotten by those who knew me ; not to depart entirely from ...
105. oldal
... lately reached the publisher ; and now it is known to you , who live at least two miles distant from my confidant upon the occasion . My labours are principally the production of the last winter ; all indeed , except a few of the minor ...
... lately reached the publisher ; and now it is known to you , who live at least two miles distant from my confidant upon the occasion . My labours are principally the production of the last winter ; all indeed , except a few of the minor ...
150. oldal
... lately , her income was nearly double mine . Her revenues indeed are now in some measure re- duced , and do not much exceed my own ; the worst consequence of this is , that we are forced to deny ourselves some things which hitherto we ...
... lately , her income was nearly double mine . Her revenues indeed are now in some measure re- duced , and do not much exceed my own ; the worst consequence of this is , that we are forced to deny ourselves some things which hitherto we ...
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acquaintance Adieu admirable affection affectionate affliction amiable amusement appears April 17 attention believe blessing Bodham brother cerning character comfort Cowper DEAR COUSIN DEAR FRIEND DEAR JOE dearest Cousin delight Esqr expect favour feel friendship Gentleman's Magazine give glad grace happy hear heart hereafter Homer honour hope Huntingdon Iliad John Gilpin JOHN JOHNSON Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind labour Lace-makers Lady Austen Lady HESKETH lately least live Lodge Lord manner March 11 mean mind morning nature neighbours never Newton obliged occasion Odyssey Olney once Park-House perhaps pleased pleasure Poem Poet poetical Poetry poor present prove reason received recollect river Ouse SAMUEL ROSE Scripture seems sensible sent spirit suppose sure tell tender thank thee thing thou thought Throckmorton Translation truth Unwin verse W. C. LETTER LETTER walk Weston wish write wrote
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171. oldal - Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
1. oldal - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
101. oldal - 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.
123. oldal - It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
257. 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.
123. oldal - She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel up Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tear that England owes. Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again Full charged with England's thunder, And plough the distant main : But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave no more.
217. oldal - 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, To pardon or to bear it.
186. oldal - ... nature an infinite share of ambition. But with it I have at the same time, as you well. know, an equal share of diffidence. To this combination of opposite qualities it has been owing that, till lately, I stole through life without undertaking any thing, yet always wishing to distinguish myself. At last I ventured, ventured too in the only path that at so late a period was yet open to me ; and am determined, if God have not determined otherwise, to work my way through the obscurity that has been...
101. oldal - Then shifting his side, as a lawyer knows how, He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes, But what were his arguments few people know, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed, with a grave solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or but, — That whenever the Nose put his spectacles on, By daylight or candlelight — Eyes should be shut.
254. oldal - Beware of too sublime a sense Of your own worth and consequence. The man who dreams himself so great, And his importance of such weight, That all around in all that's done Must move and act for Him alone, Will learn in school of tribulation The folly of his expectation.