The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, by W. Hayley, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... once we dwelt our name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nurs'ry floor , And where the gardner Robin day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapt In scarlet ...
... once we dwelt our name is heard no more , Children not thine have trod my nurs'ry floor , And where the gardner Robin day by day , Drew me to school along the public way , Delighted Delighted with my bauble coach , and wrapt In scarlet ...
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... once we call'd the past'ral house our own . Short - liv'd possession ! but the record fair , That memory keeps of all thy kindness there , Still outlives many a storm that has effac'd A thousand other themes less deeply trac'd . Thy ...
... once we call'd the past'ral house our own . Short - liv'd possession ! but the record fair , That memory keeps of all thy kindness there , Still outlives many a storm that has effac'd A thousand other themes less deeply trac'd . Thy ...
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... a sketch , which he once formed himself , of passages in his early life , he expresses , what he endured at the time , in these remarkable words : They , " whose 66 " whose spirits are formed like mine , to whom 24 LIFE OF COWPER .
... a sketch , which he once formed himself , of passages in his early life , he expresses , what he endured at the time , in these remarkable words : They , " whose 66 " whose spirits are formed like mine , to whom 24 LIFE OF COWPER .
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... once go loose ; Lost , till He tune them , all their pow'r and use , No wounds like those , a wounded spirit feels ; No cure for such , ' till God , who makes them , heals . And thou , sad sufferer , under nameless ill , That yields not ...
... once go loose ; Lost , till He tune them , all their pow'r and use , No wounds like those , a wounded spirit feels ; No cure for such , ' till God , who makes them , heals . And thou , sad sufferer , under nameless ill , That yields not ...
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... and keep me worthy of them . Your brother Martin has been very kind to me , having wrote to me twice in a stile , which , though it once was irksome to me , to say the the least , I now know how to value . 10 LIFE OF COWPER . To Mrs Cowper.
... and keep me worthy of them . Your brother Martin has been very kind to me , having wrote to me twice in a stile , which , though it once was irksome to me , to say the the least , I now know how to value . 10 LIFE OF COWPER . To Mrs Cowper.
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acquaintance admirable affection affectionate amiable amusement appears April 17 attention beautiful blessing Bodham brother character comfortable Cowper DEAR COUSIN DEAR FRIEND dearest Cousin degree delight Esqr feel friendship genius give graceful happy heart Homer honour honour of Scotland hope Huntingdon Iliad interesting John Gilpin John Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind labour Lace-makers Lady Austen Lady Hesketh least LETTER LETTER live Lodge Lord March 11 mind nature neighbours never Newton obliged occasion Olney painful Park-House peculiar perhaps pleased pleasure Poem Poet poetical poetry powers praise present prove racters Reader reason received recollect river Ouse Samuel Rose scene Scripture seems sensible sent shew spirit suppose sure talents tell tender thee thing thou thought Throckmorton tion Translation truth Unwin verse virtues Volume W. C. LETTER walk Weston WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write
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Page 100 - Toll for the Brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock : She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 77 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Page xviii - They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none.
Page 76 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Page 227 - Alas ! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him.
Page 195 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Page 12 - He is a man of learning and good sense, and as simple as parson Adams. His wife has a very uncommon understanding, has read much to excellent purpose, and is more polite than a duchess.