The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, 4. kötetJ. Seagrave, 1806 |
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11. oldal
... a new course of life at Oxford . You would admire him much : He is gentle in his manners , and delicate in his person , resembling our poor friend Unwin , both in face and figure , more than any one I have seen . But he has not 11.
... a new course of life at Oxford . You would admire him much : He is gentle in his manners , and delicate in his person , resembling our poor friend Unwin , both in face and figure , more than any one I have seen . But he has not 11.
48. oldal
... person , his features , his manner , were all so perfectly characteristic , that I am persuaded an apparition of him could not represent him more completely . This may be said to have been one of the dreams of Pindus , may it not ? How ...
... person , his features , his manner , were all so perfectly characteristic , that I am persuaded an apparition of him could not represent him more completely . This may be said to have been one of the dreams of Pindus , may it not ? How ...
85. oldal
... person skilled in more languages than are spoken in the present day , as I doubt not that she is . I perfectly approve the theme she recommends to me , but am at present so totally absorbed in Homer , that all I do beside is ill done ...
... person skilled in more languages than are spoken in the present day , as I doubt not that she is . I perfectly approve the theme she recommends to me , but am at present so totally absorbed in Homer , that all I do beside is ill done ...
106. oldal
... persons not very interesting to me , and letters from a distance still less interesting , because the writers of them are strangers . A man sent me a long copy of verses , which I could do no less than acknowledge . They were silly ...
... persons not very interesting to me , and letters from a distance still less interesting , because the writers of them are strangers . A man sent me a long copy of verses , which I could do no less than acknowledge . They were silly ...
136. oldal
... persons who , while they declared that he ought to receive an immediate public support , seemed to possess both the inclina- tion , and the power , to ensure it . But such is the difficulty of doing real good , experienced even by the ...
... persons who , while they declared that he ought to receive an immediate public support , seemed to possess both the inclina- tion , and the power , to ensure it . But such is the difficulty of doing real good , experienced even by the ...
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Adieu admirable affectionate afflicted appear bard bird-lime brother CALLIMACHUS charm Courtenay Cowper DEAR FRIEND dearest degree delight Dereham distress Eartham endeavour Esqr excellent expressed eyes favourite feel friendship genius give grace Greek hand happy haste heart Homer honour hope Hurdis Iliad John Throckmorton Johnny Johnson justly kind labour Lady Hesketh Latin live Lord Thurlow Mary melancholy memory Milton mind morning nature never nihil obliged Odyssey once passage perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope powers praise present quæ Qualia quam quod racter reader reason received rejoice Revd Romney SAMUEL ROSE seems shew sight soon sorrow spect spirit sublime sufferings talents Task tell tender thank thee thine thing thou tibi tion translation truly truth Unwin verse vex'd W. C. LETTER Weston Whig WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write
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179. oldal - That pitiless perforce, They left their outcast mate behind, And scudded still before the wind. Some succour yet they could afford ; And, such as storms allow, The cask, the coop, the floated cord, Delay'd not to bestow.
154. oldal - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more, My Mary...
156. oldal - And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary ! But ah ! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary ! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary ! W.
180. oldal - Could catch the sound no more : For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him : but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear : And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
235. oldal - Are they not his by a peculiar right, And by an emphasis of interest his, Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love That plann'd, and built, and still upholds a world So clothed with beauty for rebellious man...
433. oldal - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
235. oldal - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.
179. oldal - Delay'd not to bestow : But he, they knew, nor ship nor shore, Whate'er they gave, should visit more.
178. oldal - Obscurest night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, Washed headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home forever left.
178. oldal - His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent.