The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers, 3. kötetJ. Johnson and Company, 1812 |
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3. oldal
... spirit . He removed from Olney to Weston in No- vember 1786. The course of his life , in his new situation , ( the spot most pleasing to his fancy ! ) will be best described by the subsequent series of his letters to that amiable ...
... spirit . He removed from Olney to Weston in No- vember 1786. The course of his life , in his new situation , ( the spot most pleasing to his fancy ! ) will be best described by the subsequent series of his letters to that amiable ...
5. oldal
... because it is not the humour of the day , a sudden flash of benevo- lence and good - spirits , occasioned merely by a change of scene , but it is her natural turn , and has governed all her conduct ever since I knew her 5.
... because it is not the humour of the day , a sudden flash of benevo- lence and good - spirits , occasioned merely by a change of scene , but it is her natural turn , and has governed all her conduct ever since I knew her 5.
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... spirits , instead of be- ing gently raised , as I had inadvertently sup- posed they would be , broke down with me , under the pressure of too much joy , and left me flat , or rather melancholy , throughout the day , to a degree that was ...
... spirits , instead of be- ing gently raised , as I had inadvertently sup- posed they would be , broke down with me , under the pressure of too much joy , and left me flat , or rather melancholy , throughout the day , to a degree that was ...
12. oldal
... spirits , may God preserve and increase to you so great a blessing ! I am affectionately and truly yours , W. C. LETTER CCXX . TO THE REV . WILLIAM UNWIN . August 24 , 1786 . MY DEAR FRIEND , I CATCH a minute by the tail , and hold it ...
... spirits , may God preserve and increase to you so great a blessing ! I am affectionately and truly yours , W. C. LETTER CCXX . TO THE REV . WILLIAM UNWIN . August 24 , 1786 . MY DEAR FRIEND , I CATCH a minute by the tail , and hold it ...
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... spirits were exceeding low , and having no fool or jester at hand , I resolved to be my own . The end was answered ; I laughed my- self , and I made you laugh . Sometimes I pour out my thoughts in a mournful strain , but those sable ...
... spirits were exceeding low , and having no fool or jester at hand , I resolved to be my own . The end was answered ; I laughed my- self , and I made you laugh . Sometimes I pour out my thoughts in a mournful strain , but those sable ...
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Adieu affectionate amiable amusement answer beautiful believe blank verse Bodham Callimachus cerned comfort Cowper DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR DEAREST COUSIN DEAREST COZ delight Eartham expect expression favor feel Gentleman's Magazine George Throckmorton give glad happy hear heard heart Homer honor hope Iliad JOHN JOHNSON Johnny JOSEPH HILL kind labour LADY HESKETH learned least live Lodge London Lord LORD THURLOW manner mean melancholy Milton mind morning neighbour never obliged occasion Odyssey Olney once perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetry poor present reason received rejoice rhime SAMUEL ROSE seems seen sensible sent soon spirits suffered suppose sure tell tender thank thee ther thing thou thought Throckmorton tion translation truth Unwin Villoison W. C. LETTER W. C. Weston walk WALTER BAGOT WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write yesterday young
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50. oldal - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
229. oldal - Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.
75. oldal - The rest in order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right.
435. 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.
89. oldal - ... you have chosen. What remains is in your own power. They say of poets that they must be born such : so must mathematicians, so must great generals, and so must lawyers, and so indeed must men of all denominations, or it is not possible that they should excel. But with whatever faculties we are born, and to -whatever studies our genius may direct us, studies they must still be.- I am persuaded that Milton did not write his Paradise Lost, nor Homer his Iliad, nor Newton his Principia, without immense...
79. 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.
435. 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.
57. oldal - Burns' 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.
135. oldal - Thus it appears, that my poetical adventure has succeeded to my wish, and I write to him by this post, on purpose to inform him, that the somebody in question is myself.
26. oldal - Flemish pencil, those bold and daring strokes of fancy, those numbers so hazardously ventured upon, and so happily finished, the matter so compressed, and yet so clear, and the colouring so sparingly laid on, and yet with such a beautiful effect?