Selections from the Poetical Works of William CowperGinn & Company, 1898 - 243 páginas |
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... Night Thoughts and Pollok's Course of Time . It was valued chiefly for its religious tone , and read mainly by religious people . His association with the Rev. John Newton , his hymns taken up at once by the Christian public and sung in ...
... Night Thoughts and Pollok's Course of Time . It was valued chiefly for its religious tone , and read mainly by religious people . His association with the Rev. John Newton , his hymns taken up at once by the Christian public and sung in ...
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... night , in giggling and making giggle instead of studying the law . " The attraction at Southampton Row was the society of his cousins Harriet and Theodora , daughters of Sir Ashley Cowper . The consequences for Cowper were twofold : he ...
... night , in giggling and making giggle instead of studying the law . " The attraction at Southampton Row was the society of his cousins Harriet and Theodora , daughters of Sir Ashley Cowper . The consequences for Cowper were twofold : he ...
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William Cowper James Ormsbee Murray. A the least conception of . Day and night I was upon the rack lying down in horror , and rising up in despair . ... In this state of mind I continued near a twelvemonth . " timely change of scene at ...
William Cowper James Ormsbee Murray. A the least conception of . Day and night I was upon the rack lying down in horror , and rising up in despair . ... In this state of mind I continued near a twelvemonth . " timely change of scene at ...
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... nights in dreaming of them , an employ- ment not very agreeable to a head , that has long been habit- uated to the luxury of choosing its subject , and has been as little employed upon business as if it had grown upon the shoulders of a ...
... nights in dreaming of them , an employ- ment not very agreeable to a head , that has long been habit- uated to the luxury of choosing its subject , and has been as little employed upon business as if it had grown upon the shoulders of a ...
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... night we read and converse as before till supper and commonly finish the even- ing either with hymns or a sermon ; and last of all the fam- ily are called to prayers . " It could not be that such a religious regimen was a good thing for ...
... night we read and converse as before till supper and commonly finish the even- ing either with hymns or a sermon ; and last of all the fam- ily are called to prayers . " It could not be that such a religious regimen was a good thing for ...
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९९ beauty beneath blank verse boast Book breath called cause charms Cowper wrote death delight distant divine dream earth ease English English poetry fair fame fancy fear feel flowers garden Gentleman's Magazine give grace groves hand happiness hast heart heaven Homer honour human Inner Temple John Gilpin John Newton King labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh Lavendon letter to Newton letter to Unwin live London lost Madame Guyon mind naiad nature never night o'er Olney Olney Hymns once palmistry peace perhaps pleasure poems poet poetic poetry praise Retirement Sainte-Beuve satire scene seems shine smile Sofa song soon soul sound Stopford Brooke sweet Task taste thee theme thine thou art thought Throckmorton toil truth verse Vincent Bourne virtue walk Weston William Bull William Cowper wind winter wonder Wordsworth
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Página 206 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such '. — It was. Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Página 77 - 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 53 - 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 25 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man.
Página 195 - It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.
Página 198 - I first took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade ! The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his...
Página 122 - 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 to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel. But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say — My Father made them all.
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 earned.
Página 208 - 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 151 - 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.