Life of William Cowper, EsqBiddle, 1843 - 288 pages |
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... circumstance in a manner more stri- king , or in a style more chaste and elegant , than Cowper has employed in his inimitable letters . To impart ease and perspicuity to the memoir , and to com- press it into as small a compass as was ...
... circumstance in a manner more stri- king , or in a style more chaste and elegant , than Cowper has employed in his inimitable letters . To impart ease and perspicuity to the memoir , and to com- press it into as small a compass as was ...
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... circumstance which cannot fail to be interesting to every Christian reader , and the more so as detailed in his own words . " One day , as I was sitting alone on a bench in the school , melancholy , and almost ready to weep at the ...
... circumstance which cannot fail to be interesting to every Christian reader , and the more so as detailed in his own words . " One day , as I was sitting alone on a bench in the school , melancholy , and almost ready to weep at the ...
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... circumstances , ) my first reflec- tions , when I awoke in the morning , were horrible and full of wretchedness . I looked forward to the approaching winter , and regretted the flight of every moment which brought it nearer , like a man ...
... circumstances , ) my first reflec- tions , when I awoke in the morning , were horrible and full of wretchedness . I looked forward to the approaching winter , and regretted the flight of every moment which brought it nearer , like a man ...
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... circumstances— the imagined contempt of his relations and acquaintance- and the apprehended prejudice he should do his patron , urged the fatal expedient upon his shattered intellect , which he now meditated with inexpressible energy ...
... circumstances— the imagined contempt of his relations and acquaintance- and the apprehended prejudice he should do his patron , urged the fatal expedient upon his shattered intellect , which he now meditated with inexpressible energy ...
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... circumstances in which he was placed . His brother immediately paid him a visit , and employed every means in his power to alleviate his distress . All his efforts , however , proved unavailing ; he found him almost overwhelmed with ...
... circumstances in which he was placed . His brother immediately paid him a visit , and employed every means in his power to alleviate his distress . All his efforts , however , proved unavailing ; he found him almost overwhelmed with ...
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Page 31 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Page 78 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take : The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 17 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 214 - That ere through age or woe I shed my wings I may record thy worth with honour due, In verse as musical as thou art true, And that immortalizes whom it sings: — But thou hast little need. There is a Book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light, On which the eyes of God not rarely look, A chronicle of actions just and bright — There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine; And since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.
Page 16 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
Page 255 - No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear: And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
Page 283 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His t...
Page 46 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 41 - ... The calm retreat, the -silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.
Page 41 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.