Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of CowperR. Carter & brothers, 1856 - 415 páginas |
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... lived possession ! but the record fair , That memory keeps of all thy kindness there , Still outlives many a storm that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced . Thy nightly visits to my chamber made , That thou mightst ...
... lived possession ! but the record fair , That memory keeps of all thy kindness there , Still outlives many a storm that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced . Thy nightly visits to my chamber made , That thou mightst ...
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... lived to see the vanity of what he had made his pride , and to find that all this time he had spent in painting a piece of wood that had no life in it , and when he began to think indeed , he found himself in pos- session of many ...
... lived to see the vanity of what he had made his pride , and to find that all this time he had spent in painting a piece of wood that had no life in it , and when he began to think indeed , he found himself in pos- session of many ...
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... lived and died without seeing or hearing any thing that might remind him of one single Christian duty , had it not been that he was at liberty to spend his leisure time ( which , he says , was well - nigh all my time ) at his aunt's in ...
... lived and died without seeing or hearing any thing that might remind him of one single Christian duty , had it not been that he was at liberty to spend his leisure time ( which , he says , was well - nigh all my time ) at his aunt's in ...
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... , grow- ing in grace and in the knowledge of the Saviour . He lived six years a most consistent and happy life as a Christian disciple ; and his great age and MISREPRESENTATIONS . 55 heavenly conversation made him the object of.
... , grow- ing in grace and in the knowledge of the Saviour . He lived six years a most consistent and happy life as a Christian disciple ; and his great age and MISREPRESENTATIONS . 55 heavenly conversation made him the object of.
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... lived to adorn the profession of his faith to the age of one hun- dred and fifteen years . Extraordinary cases of conversion at this same period when Cowper's saving experience of the truth began , might be multiplied ; his own case was ...
... lived to adorn the profession of his faith to the age of one hun- dred and fifteen years . Extraordinary cases of conversion at this same period when Cowper's saving experience of the truth began , might be multiplied ; his own case was ...
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admirable affectionate affections afflicted afterward beautiful blessing CHILDHOOD OF COWPER Christ Christian Church conscience conversion darkness dear death dejection delightful delusion despair distress Divine grace Divine Providence dreadful dream Eartham enjoyment eternal experience exquisite faith feel felt forever genius gloom glory God's Gospel habit happy Hayley heart heaven heavenly hope Huntingdon insanity Jesus John Gilpin John Newton knew labor Lady Hesketh letter to Lady LETTERS TO NEWTON light lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Mahon LORD THURLOW Madan madness malady Martin Madan melancholy mental mercy mind misery Mundesley nature ness never night OLNEY HYMNS once passed peace per's period pietism piety poem poet poetry pray prayer reason regard religion religious RELIGIOUS CONVERSATION rience says seemed sorrow soul Southey spirit suffered sweet Teedon tender thee thing thou thought tion truth Unwin verse walk Westminster School Weston whole write wrote
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Página 301 - I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such?
Página 123 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by th
Página 294 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.
Página 401 - 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.
Página 66 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Página 11 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Página 205 - That, reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And, made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Página 300 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Página 376 - 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 124 - Been hurt by th' archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet, the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth, and heal'd, and bade me live. Since then, with few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander, far from those My former partners of the peopled scene ; With few associates, and not wishing more. Here much I ruminate, as much I may, With other views of men and manners now Than once, and others of a life to come.