The Task: With Tirocinium, and Selections from the Minor Poems, A.D. 1784-1799Clarendon Press, 1896 - 283 páginas |
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Página xi
... passed all his Sundays , and was soon found spending also ' his leisure hours , which were wellnigh all his time . ' Harriet , the eldest of the three cousins , afterwards Lady Hesketh , was the friend and corre- spondent of Cowper ...
... passed all his Sundays , and was soon found spending also ' his leisure hours , which were wellnigh all his time . ' Harriet , the eldest of the three cousins , afterwards Lady Hesketh , was the friend and corre- spondent of Cowper ...
Página xxii
... passed the first three months . On the 9th of December they removed to Orchard Side , a house situate in the Market ... passing through the street . It may be doubted whether Cowper could have found a place less eligible for a man ...
... passed the first three months . On the 9th of December they removed to Orchard Side , a house situate in the Market ... passing through the street . It may be doubted whether Cowper could have found a place less eligible for a man ...
Página xxv
... passed under Mr. Newton's roof , and during which the patient was tended with the watchful assiduity of love by Mrs. Unwin , he exhibited the first signs of recovery , by noticing the growth of the trees and flowers in the garden . The ...
... passed under Mr. Newton's roof , and during which the patient was tended with the watchful assiduity of love by Mrs. Unwin , he exhibited the first signs of recovery , by noticing the growth of the trees and flowers in the garden . The ...
Página xxxviii
... passing nineteen years there , for Weston Lodge ; where a bright prospect of happiness seemed to lie before him . But within a fortnight ( and just three days after he had attained his fifty - fifth year ) a heavy calamity fell upon him ...
... passing nineteen years there , for Weston Lodge ; where a bright prospect of happiness seemed to lie before him . But within a fortnight ( and just three days after he had attained his fifty - fifth year ) a heavy calamity fell upon him ...
Página xlvi
... passed , March 22. Rockingham succeeds Grenville in July . The Treaty of Allaha- bad cedes Bengal to the East India Company , August 12. Dr. Edward Young died , aet . 81 , April 12. Cowper becomes an inmate of Mr. Unwin's house at ...
... passed , March 22. Rockingham succeeds Grenville in July . The Treaty of Allaha- bad cedes Bengal to the East India Company , August 12. Dr. Edward Young died , aet . 81 , April 12. Cowper becomes an inmate of Mr. Unwin's house at ...
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.