Cowper: The task, with Tirocinium, and selections from the minor poems, A.D. 1784-1799Clarendon Press, 1875 |
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... fame by his achievements ' in cricket and football , and those other sports by which boys are apt to gauge the courage and spirit of their companions . Nearly forty years after he left school , he wrote to Unwin ( 1786 ) , ' I was a ...
... fame by his achievements ' in cricket and football , and those other sports by which boys are apt to gauge the courage and spirit of their companions . Nearly forty years after he left school , he wrote to Unwin ( 1786 ) , ' I was a ...
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... Fame , by the grateful allusion to the former in the poem on Hope , as ' Cotton , whose humanity sheds rays , That make superior skill his second praise . ' In days gone by it was no uncommon thing to hear it said that it was religion ...
... Fame , by the grateful allusion to the former in the poem on Hope , as ' Cotton , whose humanity sheds rays , That make superior skill his second praise . ' In days gone by it was no uncommon thing to hear it said that it was religion ...
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... fame by advancing along the track which Cowper had pointed out to them . We are not indeed to conclude that Cowper addressed himself to the composition of ' The Task ' with any conscious design of becoming the founder of a new school of ...
... fame by advancing along the track which Cowper had pointed out to them . We are not indeed to conclude that Cowper addressed himself to the composition of ' The Task ' with any conscious design of becoming the founder of a new school of ...
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... personal intercourse with a poet , whose fame now rendered him an ornament to their house . His uncle Ashley , and his old friend and patron the Major ( now General Cowper ) , were of this number : and his xxxvi LIFE OF COWPER .
... personal intercourse with a poet , whose fame now rendered him an ornament to their house . His uncle Ashley , and his old friend and patron the Major ( now General Cowper ) , were of this number : and his xxxvi LIFE OF COWPER .
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... fame , had Lady Austen been still at hand to prompt the composition of original poems , or had he not already embarked on the undertaking before Lady Hesketh arrived to fill the vacant post of friend and counsellor . Yet the mental ...
... fame , had Lady Austen been still at hand to prompt the composition of original poems , or had he not already embarked on the undertaking before Lady Hesketh arrived to fill the vacant post of friend and counsellor . Yet the mental ...
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Aeneid beauty beneath boast Bodham Bonnell Thornton born breath called cause charms Clifton Reynes Cowper death delight died divine dream earth ease East Dereham Emberton fair fame Fancy fear feel flowers folly give grace hand happy hast Hayley heard heart Heaven honour John Gilpin king labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh less live London Lord Lost Lover's Melancholy Lycanthropy mind Nature Nature's Nebaioth never Newton nymphs o'er Olney Olney Hymns once Ormus peace perhaps pleasure poem Poet Poet's Pope's praise scene seems shine slaves smile Sofa song soon soul spirit sweet task taste thee theme thine thou art Throckmorton toil trees truth Unwin verse Virgil virtue walk Warren Hastings Weston Weston Underwood William Cowper wind winter wisdom wonder word worth ΙΟ
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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 272 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Página 200 - 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 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 201 - Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot, But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no more, Children not thine have trod my nursery floor ; And where the gardener, Robin, day by day, Drew me to school along the public way, Delighted with my bauble coach, and wrapped In scarlet mantle warm, and velvet cap, 'Tis now become a history little...
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 202 - 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 202 - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay, — So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore "Where tempests never beat, nor billows roar;" And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Página 233 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize