The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the AuthorBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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... seems needless , if not impertinent , in an obscure individual , to say any thing in praise of the Author of the Task . It is of more consequence to inform the reader of the circumstances that have led to this pub- lication . About ...
... seems needless , if not impertinent , in an obscure individual , to say any thing in praise of the Author of the Task . It is of more consequence to inform the reader of the circumstances that have led to this pub- lication . About ...
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... seem . That little I devoted for a month after your departure to the translation of Madame Guion . I have made fair copies of all the pieces I have produced on this last occasion , and will put them into your hands when we meet . They ...
... seem . That little I devoted for a month after your departure to the translation of Madame Guion . I have made fair copies of all the pieces I have produced on this last occasion , and will put them into your hands when we meet . They ...
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... seems a rolling sea of golden grain , All , all have lost the charms they once possess'd ; An infant God reigns sovereign in my breast ; From Bethlehem's bosom I no more will rove ; There dwells the Saviour , and there rests my love ...
... seems a rolling sea of golden grain , All , all have lost the charms they once possess'd ; An infant God reigns sovereign in my breast ; From Bethlehem's bosom I no more will rove ; There dwells the Saviour , and there rests my love ...
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... seems in haste to run , Behold him where he shines ! His rapid rays , Themselves unmeasured , measure all our days ; Nothing impedes the race he would pursue , Nothing escapes his penetrating view , A thousand lands confess his ...
... seems in haste to run , Behold him where he shines ! His rapid rays , Themselves unmeasured , measure all our days ; Nothing impedes the race he would pursue , Nothing escapes his penetrating view , A thousand lands confess his ...
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... seems , How quench'd the radiance of his golden beams ! Thou art my bliss , the light by which I move ; In Thee alone dwells all that I can love ; All darkness flies when Thou art pleased to appear , A sudden spring renews the fading ...
... seems , How quench'd the radiance of his golden beams ! Thou art my bliss , the light by which I move ; In Thee alone dwells all that I can love ; All darkness flies when Thou art pleased to appear , A sudden spring renews the fading ...
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ascending sun beauty beneath bliss boast breath cause charms COWPER dear deep delight distant divine divine simplicity dream Dunciad earth ease fair fame fancy fear feel Fête champêtre flower folly form'd frown glory grace grove hand happy heart heaven honour human Julius Cæsar King L'Allegro labour liberty live Lord Lost Mighty winds mind nature Nature's never night o'er once pain peace pleased pleasure Pope praise proud prove pure repose rills rove rude rural sacred Satire Satire vi scene scorn secret fire seek shades shine sighs sight silent skies sleep smile Soame Jenyns SOFA solitude song Sonnet 18 soon sorrow soul Spleen stream sweet task taste thee theme thine things thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas Vincent Bourne virtue WILLIAM BULL WILLIAM COWPER wind winter wisdom woes wonder worth
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Página 88 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Página 302 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit " But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, — " It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Página 249 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Página 229 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Página 163 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Página 303 - ... off with all his might, as he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away went Gilpin's hat and wig : He lost them sooner than at first; — for why? — they were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw her husband posting down Into the country far away, she...
Página 154 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 70 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 125 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 87 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.