The Task: With Tirocinium, and Selections from the Minor Poems, A.D. 1784-1799Clarendon Press, 1896 - 283 páginas |
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Página xiii
... stands almost alone amongst poets , in making no allusion to the passion of love . Some years after this separation , he wrote to Lady Hesketh : ' I still look back to the memory of your sister , and regret her : but , how strange it is ...
... stands almost alone amongst poets , in making no allusion to the passion of love . Some years after this separation , he wrote to Lady Hesketh : ' I still look back to the memory of your sister , and regret her : but , how strange it is ...
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... stand in that relation to its author . The various members of Cowper's family , who had hitherto been satisfied with contributing to the support of one whom they regarded as hopelessly in- capacitated for the real business of life ...
... stand in that relation to its author . The various members of Cowper's family , who had hitherto been satisfied with contributing to the support of one whom they regarded as hopelessly in- capacitated for the real business of life ...
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... stand suspected of having aimed his censure at any particular school . His objections are such as naturally apply themselves to schools in general . If there were not , as for the most part there is , wilful neglect in those who manage ...
... stand suspected of having aimed his censure at any particular school . His objections are such as naturally apply themselves to schools in general . If there were not , as for the most part there is , wilful neglect in those who manage ...
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... Stand , never overlooked , our favourite elms , That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond , and overthwart the stream , That , as with molten glass , inlays the vale , The sloping land recedes into the clouds ...
... Stand , never overlooked , our favourite elms , That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond , and overthwart the stream , That , as with molten glass , inlays the vale , The sloping land recedes into the clouds ...
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... stands , possessed With visions prompted by intense desire ; Fair fields appear below , such as he left Far distant , such as he would die to find— He seeks them headlong , and is seen no more . 450 The spleen is seldom felt where Flora ...
... stands , possessed With visions prompted by intense desire ; Fair fields appear below , such as he left Far distant , such as he would die to find— He seeks them headlong , and is seen no more . 450 The spleen is seldom felt where Flora ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.