The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers, Volumen4J. Johnson and Company, 1812 - 430 páginas |
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... wish her and you to die be- fore me , but not till I am more likely to follow immediately . Enough of this ! years Romney has drawn me in crayons , and in the opinion of all here , with his best hand , and with the most exact ...
... wish her and you to die be- fore me , but not till I am more likely to follow immediately . Enough of this ! years Romney has drawn me in crayons , and in the opinion of all here , with his best hand , and with the most exact ...
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... wish your consent . Both your benefit and my own , which , I believe , would be abundantly answered by your coming , ought to make me eloquent in such a cause . Here you will find silence and retirement in perfec- tion , when you would ...
... wish your consent . Both your benefit and my own , which , I believe , would be abundantly answered by your coming , ought to make me eloquent in such a cause . Here you will find silence and retirement in perfec- tion , when you would ...
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... wishes to disperse my melancholy would , I am sure , prevail , did that event depend on the warmth and sincerity with which you frame them ; but it has baffled both wishes and prayers , and those the most fervent that could be made , so ...
... wishes to disperse my melancholy would , I am sure , prevail , did that event depend on the warmth and sincerity with which you frame them ; but it has baffled both wishes and prayers , and those the most fervent that could be made , so ...
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... . W. C. Weston , Nov. 9 , 1792 . MY DEAR FRIEND , I WISH that I were as industrious , and as much occupied as you , though in a dif- way ; but it is not so with me . Mrs. Un- ferent win's great debility ( who is not yet able to 23.
... . W. C. Weston , Nov. 9 , 1792 . MY DEAR FRIEND , I WISH that I were as industrious , and as much occupied as you , though in a dif- way ; but it is not so with me . Mrs. Un- ferent win's great debility ( who is not yet able to 23.
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... in some of my best verse ; the most suitable return one poet can make another ; in the mean time , I love you , and am sensible of all your kindness . You wish me warm in my work , and I ardently wish the same : but 27.
... in some of my best verse ; the most suitable return one poet can make another ; in the mean time , I love you , and am sensible of all your kindness . You wish me warm in my work , and I ardently wish the same : but 27.
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Adieu admirable affectionate affliction appear bard blank verse brother charm cheerful choly Cowper dearest delight Dereham distress Eartham endeavour ev'ry excellence expressed eyes favorite feel friendship genius ginal give grace Greek hand happy haste heart Heaven Homer honor hope Hurdis Iliad infirmities JOHN JOHNSON John Throckmorton Johnny Johnson justly kind labour LADY HESKETH literary live Lord Thurlow Mary melan melancholy Milton mind morning nature never nihil North Tuddenham obliged occasion Odyssey once perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope powers praise present quæ quam quod racter reader reason received rejoice Romney Rose seems sight soon sorrow spirit suffer talents tell tender thee thine thing thou tibi tion translation truth Unwin verse vex'd W. C. LETTER W. C. Weston Whig WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write youth
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Página 146 - 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...
Página 146 - Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary! Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary!
Página 230 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; No traveller ever reach'd that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briers in his road.
Página 425 - As in Dodona once thy kindred trees Oracular, I would not curious ask The future, best unknown, but at thy mouth Inquisitive, the less ambiguous past. By thee I might correct, erroneous oft, The clock of history, facts and events Timing more punctual, unrecorded facts Recovering, and misstated setting right...
Página 147 - 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!
Página 230 - But he, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, " Go, spend them in the vale of tears.
Página 168 - Adieu!" At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, 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...
Página 413 - 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.
Página 425 - Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ; And time hath made thee what thou art — a cave For owls to roost in.
Página 427 - Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root — and time has been When tempests could not.