The task, and minor poems [ed.] by E. Lee1900 |
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... human soul , which had upset the navigation of a Christian sailor . " Some- thing of the same hypochondria , though in a different degree and with different results , beset Dr Johnson , Collins , and Swift . Cowper's own description of ...
... human soul , which had upset the navigation of a Christian sailor . " Some- thing of the same hypochondria , though in a different degree and with different results , beset Dr Johnson , Collins , and Swift . Cowper's own description of ...
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... human affections . and of the joys of domesticity . Cowper was a close observer and a faithful painter of nature ... humanity when it is spent in the country amid rural sights and sounds , for " God made the country and man made the town ...
... human affections . and of the joys of domesticity . Cowper was a close observer and a faithful painter of nature ... humanity when it is spent in the country amid rural sights and sounds , for " God made the country and man made the town ...
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... human or animal life . He paints delightful vignettes of the driver of the hay wain , the ploughman , the thresher , the carter , the woodman ; gipsies fill the scene at times , and animals innumerable occupy prominent places . Dogs ...
... human or animal life . He paints delightful vignettes of the driver of the hay wain , the ploughman , the thresher , the carter , the woodman ; gipsies fill the scene at times , and animals innumerable occupy prominent places . Dogs ...
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... humanity very keen . While deploring the loss of the American colonies , inveighing against the indifference of the ... human being , though he may not be white in colour , indignities that we should weep to see inflicted on a beast ...
... humanity very keen . While deploring the loss of the American colonies , inveighing against the indifference of the ... human being , though he may not be white in colour , indignities that we should weep to see inflicted on a beast ...
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... human affairs that has scarcely been surpassed . This side of him is well illustrated in his letters . The spontaneity of their humour is so unmistakable that it has been said of him that he was born a letter- writer and made a poet ...
... human affairs that has scarcely been surpassed . This side of him is well illustrated in his letters . The spontaneity of their humour is so unmistakable that it has been said of him that he was born a letter- writer and made a poet ...
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admire Æneid ALEXANDER SELKIRK Beau marked beauty beneath blank verse boast Book breath called cause CHARLES LAPWORTH charms clime Cowper Crown 8vo death delight divine dream earth ease English fair fancy Fcap fear feel Fettes College flower folly Gilpin gives glory grace hand happy hast heard heart heaven honour human John Gilpin king labour land light live lost lyre Milton mind nature Nature's Nebaioth never night numbers o'er once Paradise Lost peace perhaps pleasure poem poet praise proud rude rural scene seek seems shade shine silent sleep smile smooth Sofa song soon soul sound storm sweet task taste thee theme thine things thou art thought toil truth Twas University of Aberdeen Unwin verse virtue Warren Hastings William Blackwood wind winter wisdom wonder worth ΙΟ
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Página 252 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 166 - 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.
Página 80 - 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 175 - GOD moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never-failing skill, He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will.
Página 194 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends , — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 176 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace ; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
Página 271 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Página 166 - Affectionate, a mother lost so long. 1 will obey, not willingly alone, But gladly, as the precept were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she.
Página 193 - I AM monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 167 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...