The Task: With Tirocinium, and Selections from the Minor Poems, A.D. 1784-1799Clarendon Press, 1896 - 283 páginas |
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Página xi
... Lady Hesketh , was the friend and corre- spondent of Cowper throughout his later years ; and to her next sister , Theodora Jane , he became bound by still tenderer ties . In a word , an attachment sprang up between them ; and the double ...
... Lady Hesketh , was the friend and corre- spondent of Cowper throughout his later years ; and to her next sister , Theodora Jane , he became bound by still tenderer ties . In a word , an attachment sprang up between them ; and the double ...
Página xiii
... Lady Hesketh : ' I still look back to the memory of your sister , and regret her : but , how strange it is , if we were to meet now , we should not know each other ! ' When he became dependent on his family , an anonymous friend ...
... Lady Hesketh : ' I still look back to the memory of your sister , and regret her : but , how strange it is , if we were to meet now , we should not know each other ! ' When he became dependent on his family , an anonymous friend ...
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... Ladies ' ( No. 115 ) ; ' Of Keeping a Secret ' ( No. 119 ) ; ' An Account of the present state of Country Churches , their Clergy , and Congregations ' ( No. 134 ) ; and one on a subject which he afterwards treated poetically , namely ...
... Ladies ' ( No. 115 ) ; ' Of Keeping a Secret ' ( No. 119 ) ; ' An Account of the present state of Country Churches , their Clergy , and Congregations ' ( No. 134 ) ; and one on a subject which he afterwards treated poetically , namely ...
Página xix
... Lady Hesketh , ' I reckon it one instance of the Providence that has attended me .. that I was carried to Dr. Cotton . I was not only treated by him with the greatest tenderness while I was ill , and attended with the utmost diligence ...
... Lady Hesketh , ' I reckon it one instance of the Providence that has attended me .. that I was carried to Dr. Cotton . I was not only treated by him with the greatest tenderness while I was ill , and attended with the utmost diligence ...
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... lady of eighteen , rather handsome and genteel , ' who became the wife of the Rev. Matthew Powley , afterwards Vicar of Dewsbury in Yorkshire . And there was the mother , Mary Unwin , whose name will never die whilst Cowper's lives ...
... lady of eighteen , rather handsome and genteel , ' who became the wife of the Rev. Matthew Powley , afterwards Vicar of Dewsbury in Yorkshire . And there was the mother , Mary Unwin , whose name will never die whilst Cowper's lives ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aeneid beauty beneath boast Bodham Book breath called charms Clifton Reynes Cowper Crown 8vo death delight died divine dream earth ease East Dereham Edited Emberton English Extra fcap fair fame Fancy fear feel flowers folly grace hand happy hast Hayley heart Heaven honour John John Gilpin King King Lear labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh less live London Lord Lost Lover's Melancholy mind Nature Nature's Nebaioth never Newton o'er Olney Olney Hymns once Ormus peace perhaps pleasure poem Poet Poet's Pope's praise scene seems shine smile Sofa song soon soul spirit stiff covers sweet task taste thee thine thou art toil trees truth Unwin verse Virgil virtue W. W. SKEAT walk Warren Hastings Weston Weston Underwood William Cowper wind winter wisdom word worth ΙΟ
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Página 51 - 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 the 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.
Página 26 - 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 earn'd.
Página 72 - 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 25 - 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...
Página 197 - 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 262 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 139 - 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 260 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 200 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine : And, while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Página 133 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.