Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of CowperR. Carter & brothers, 1856 - 415 páginas |
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... present volume . On a new and more thorough examina- tion of the Autobiography and Letters of Cowper , in con- nection with the Poet's Memoir by Southey , the impression has been deepened of the injustice done to both Cowper and Newton ...
... present volume . On a new and more thorough examina- tion of the Autobiography and Letters of Cowper , in con- nection with the Poet's Memoir by Southey , the impression has been deepened of the injustice done to both Cowper and Newton ...
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... present self ; of his character and habits as a boy and a man , without grace , and of the great and mighty change wrought in him by grace ; and we can not but esteem it a false and ill - judged delicacy , which would suppress , or deny ...
... present self ; of his character and habits as a boy and a man , without grace , and of the great and mighty change wrought in him by grace ; and we can not but esteem it a false and ill - judged delicacy , which would suppress , or deny ...
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... present age , this were an agreed point among all people of dis- cernment , and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long in- terrupted the ...
... present age , this were an agreed point among all people of dis- cernment , and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long in- terrupted the ...
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... present peace was to wink hard against the prospect of future misery , and to resolve to banish all thoughts upon a subject on which he thought to so little purpose . " To wink hard against the prospect of future misery ! How graphic a ...
... present peace was to wink hard against the prospect of future misery , and to resolve to banish all thoughts upon a subject on which he thought to so little purpose . " To wink hard against the prospect of future misery ! How graphic a ...
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... present his religious experience as the only cure of his mental malady , the only lasting relief from his misery and dark- ness . They show that religious anxiety had nothing to do with exciting Cowper's derangement , or pro- ducing it ...
... present his religious experience as the only cure of his mental malady , the only lasting relief from his misery and dark- ness . They show that religious anxiety had nothing to do with exciting Cowper's derangement , or pro- ducing it ...
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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.
Página 362 - It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Página 11 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or confectionary plum ; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed By thy own hand, till fresh they shone and glowed...
Página 294 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God. 4 There, like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays, Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
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 397 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Página 255 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment executes with ease) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use.
Página 376 - 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...
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 361 - I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.