The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr, 2. kötetBenjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson [Benjamin Johnson, printer], 1805 |
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Adieu affectionate amiable amusement answer arrived beautiful believe Bodham called Catharina comfort Countess Spencer Cowper DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR DEAREST COUSIN dearest coz delight Eartham Esquire expect favour feel finished forget give glad happy hear heard heart Homer honour hope Iliad JOHN JOHNSON Johnny JOSEPH HILL journey kind labour Lace-maker Lady HESKETH learned least live Lodge London March 11 March 23 mean ment Milton mind morning neighbour never night obliged occasion Odyssey Olney once opportunity perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poor present prove reason received rejoice SAMUEL ROSE seems seen sensible sent soon spirits suppose sure sweet tell tender thank thee ther thing thou Throckmorton tion translation trouble truth Unwin verses Vincent Bourne W. C. LETTER walk Weston WILLIAM HAYLEY wish wonder write yesterday young
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181. 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.
109. 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.
6. oldal - ... them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them on the whole a very extraordinary production. He is I believe the only poet these kingdoms have produced in the lower rank of life since Shakespeare...
94. oldal - Every creature that bears any affinity to my mother is dear to me, and you, the daughter of her brother, are but one remove distant from her : I love you, therefore, and love you much, both for her sake and for your own.
19. oldal - gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop 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.
205. oldal - I have ever seen ; but which, dissipated as my powers of thought are at present, I will not undertake to describe. It shall suffice me to say that they occupy three sides of a hill, which in Buckinghamshire might well pass for a mountain, and from the summit of which is beheld a most magnificent landscape bounded by the sea, and in one part of it by the Isle of Wight, which may also be seen plainly from the window of the library in which I am writing.
205. oldal - Here we are as happy as it is in the power of terrestrial good to make us. It is almost a paradise in which we dwell ; and our reception has been the kindest that it was possible for friendship and hospitality to contrive.
81. oldal - ... or four first years in which we are our own masters, make it. Then it is that we may be said to shape our own destiny, and to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours, I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a character of more importance in society, and a situation in which my friends would have been better pleased to see me.
7. 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. I lent him to a very sensible neighbour of mine ; but his uncouth dialect spoiled all ; and before he had half read him through he was quite ram-feezled.
16. oldal - THE RETIRED CAT. A POET'S Cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks to which she might retire, And where, secure as mouse in chink, She might repose, or sit and think.