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... later than Table Talk , was published the ' work upon which Cowper's fame traditionally rests . Shortly before the issue of his first venture The Task . he had become acquainted with a butterfly enthusiast , Lady Austen ; and in the ...
... later than Table Talk , was published the ' work upon which Cowper's fame traditionally rests . Shortly before the issue of his first venture The Task . he had become acquainted with a butterfly enthusiast , Lady Austen ; and in the ...
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... later years of Burns ' short life ( 1759-1796 ) . So do the finest poems inspired by the love of country and of freedom.2 But , even without these and certain 1 E.g. , O , my love's like a red , red rose ( 1794 ) ; Oh , wert thou in the ...
... later years of Burns ' short life ( 1759-1796 ) . So do the finest poems inspired by the love of country and of freedom.2 But , even without these and certain 1 E.g. , O , my love's like a red , red rose ( 1794 ) ; Oh , wert thou in the ...
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... later , was , in his earlier work at any rate , more decidedly classical than either of them . No one of them , indeed , is a classicist in more than a very limited sense . is not from Pope , so much as from Gray and Gold- smith , from ...
... later , was , in his earlier work at any rate , more decidedly classical than either of them . No one of them , indeed , is a classicist in more than a very limited sense . is not from Pope , so much as from Gray and Gold- smith , from ...
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... later poems . Indeed in the Tales , and still more the Tales of the Hall , both temper and manner are markedly changed from those of the earlier volumes . There is less of the gazetteer about them , and the clouds are broken by more ...
... later poems . Indeed in the Tales , and still more the Tales of the Hall , both temper and manner are markedly changed from those of the earlier volumes . There is less of the gazetteer about them , and the clouds are broken by more ...
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... later writer , but his sense of what is characteristic is sound , as far as it goes , and he has something of the same brevity . The real im- portance of these affinities is to show that even those who were reckoned as champions of the ...
... later writer , but his sense of what is characteristic is sound , as far as it goes , and he has something of the same brevity . The real im- portance of these affinities is to show that even those who were reckoned as champions of the ...
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Página 32 - The wan moon is setting behind the white wave, And time is setting with me, Oh...
Página 59 - ... be so, I would willingly take all reasonable pains to correct. But it is dangerous to make these alterations on the simple authority of a few individuals, or even of certain classes of men; for where the understanding of an author is not convinced...
Página 35 - I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy, and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air, with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade...
Página 156 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Página 131 - ... frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of...
Página 228 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Página 74 - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in "Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Página 131 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
Página 415 - the air of this country did not agree with " you, and we are not yet reduced to seek " for models amongst the people you admire. " Your last work is not French ; it is I " who have put a stop to the publication of