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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... . IV . Ehichester : Plinii Epist . Lib . 4 , Ep . 17 . STOR LIBR ARY AEW - YORK PRINTED BY J. SEAGRAVE , FOR J. JOHNSON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH - YARD , LONDON . 1806 . VVW 1 BOOKSELLER'S ADVERTISEMENT TO A NEW EDITION OF COWPER'S POEMS.
... . IV . Ehichester : Plinii Epist . Lib . 4 , Ep . 17 . STOR LIBR ARY AEW - YORK PRINTED BY J. SEAGRAVE , FOR J. JOHNSON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH - YARD , LONDON . 1806 . VVW 1 BOOKSELLER'S ADVERTISEMENT TO A NEW EDITION OF COWPER'S POEMS.
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... POEMS , Which will be published on the first of March , in quarto , with the head of the Author , ENGRAVED BY BARTOLOZZI , FROM A DRAWING BY LAWRENCE . Many of the admirers of Mr. CowPER's writings having expressed a desire of ...
... POEMS , Which will be published on the first of March , in quarto , with the head of the Author , ENGRAVED BY BARTOLOZZI , FROM A DRAWING BY LAWRENCE . Many of the admirers of Mr. CowPER's writings having expressed a desire of ...
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... Poems , is by no means a pleasant one to me , and so I told him in a letter I sent him from Eartham , in which I assured him that my objections to it would not be easily surmounted . But if you judge that it may really have an effect in ...
... Poems , is by no means a pleasant one to me , and so I told him in a letter I sent him from Eartham , in which I assured him that my objections to it would not be easily surmounted . But if you judge that it may really have an effect in ...
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... poets , expending nobody knows wha , .n embellishing my premises , or rather the premises of my neighbour Courtenay , which is more poetical still . I have built one summer - house already , with the boards of my old study , and am ...
... poets , expending nobody knows wha , .n embellishing my premises , or rather the premises of my neighbour Courtenay , which is more poetical still . I have built one summer - house already , with the boards of my old study , and am ...
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... poems ? If neither were the cause , as seems reasonable to ima- gine , how could he incur his blindness by such means as could be justly imputable to the muse ? Would mere thinking blind him ? I want to know : " Call up some spirit from ...
... poems ? If neither were the cause , as seems reasonable to ima- gine , how could he incur his blindness by such means as could be justly imputable to the muse ? Would mere thinking blind him ? I want to know : " Call up some spirit from ...
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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.