The Task: With Tirocinium, and Selections from the Minor Poems, A.D. 1784-1799Clarendon Press, 1896 - 283 páginas |
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Página viii
... feel the bond of nature draw me vehemently to your side . I was thought in the days of my childhood much to resemble my mother ; and in my natural temper , of which at the age of fifty - eight I must be supposed to be a competent judge ...
... feel the bond of nature draw me vehemently to your side . I was thought in the days of my childhood much to resemble my mother ; and in my natural temper , of which at the age of fifty - eight I must be supposed to be a competent judge ...
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... feel a relation ; and the house he preferred to a palace . ' In 1759 Cowper removed from the Middle to the Inner Temple . On his return to London after his sojourn at Southampton , being under the persuasion that he was in- debted for ...
... feel a relation ; and the house he preferred to a palace . ' In 1759 Cowper removed from the Middle to the Inner Temple . On his return to London after his sojourn at Southampton , being under the persuasion that he was in- debted for ...
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... feeling , and may be said in some parts of it to soar into sublimity . Yet , as Miss Seward has remarked , ' No reader could have expected the diamonds of Cowper , who had only seen the Scotch pebbles which he offered for sale at the ...
... feeling , and may be said in some parts of it to soar into sublimity . Yet , as Miss Seward has remarked , ' No reader could have expected the diamonds of Cowper , who had only seen the Scotch pebbles which he offered for sale at the ...
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... feel himself a little ashamed , and the authorship of which he long hesitated to acknowledge to the world . His new volume was seized with avidity by the public , not as being the production of the author of Table Talk , but out of a ...
... feel himself a little ashamed , and the authorship of which he long hesitated to acknowledge to the world . His new volume was seized with avidity by the public , not as being the production of the author of Table Talk , but out of a ...
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... feel : For I have loved the rural walk through lanes Of grassy swarth , close cropped by nibbling sheep , And skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs : have loved the rural walk O'er hills , through valleys , and by ...
... feel : For I have loved the rural walk through lanes Of grassy swarth , close cropped by nibbling sheep , And skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs : have loved the rural walk O'er hills , through valleys , and by ...
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.