The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, Volume 1J. Seagrave, 1806 |
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Pagina 15
... present reign , whose elevation to that dignity he has recorded in rhyme . Much respect is due to the legal names of Cowper and of Thurlow . Knowledge , elo- quence , and political importance , conspired to aggrandize the men , who ...
... present reign , whose elevation to that dignity he has recorded in rhyme . Much respect is due to the legal names of Cowper and of Thurlow . Knowledge , elo- quence , and political importance , conspired to aggrandize the men , who ...
Pagina 16
... present - universal ad- miration , and love ! His poetry is to the heart , and the fancy , what the moral essays of Bacon are to the understanding , a never- cloying feast ! " As if increase of appetite had grown 66 By what it fed on ...
... present - universal ad- miration , and love ! His poetry is to the heart , and the fancy , what the moral essays of Bacon are to the understanding , a never- cloying feast ! " As if increase of appetite had grown 66 By what it fed on ...
Pagina xii
... present time it exhibits nothing but tedious malignity . " The critic's censure on this remarkable composition , is a striking proof of his own malevolent prejudice against Pope . A friend to the poet would have justly observed , that ...
... present time it exhibits nothing but tedious malignity . " The critic's censure on this remarkable composition , is a striking proof of his own malevolent prejudice against Pope . A friend to the poet would have justly observed , that ...
Pagina xxxi
... present ! I shall have occasion to pay my respects to him again , if Heaven allows me life and leisure to write such a Preface as I wish to prefix to the Milton of Cowper . I come now to the second transgression imputed to me , that of ...
... present ! I shall have occasion to pay my respects to him again , if Heaven allows me life and leisure to write such a Preface as I wish to prefix to the Milton of Cowper . I come now to the second transgression imputed to me , that of ...
Pagina xlv
... present moments , and regret the past ; Depriv'd of every joy I valued most , My friend torn from me , and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear , this anxious mien , The dull effect of humour , or of spleen ! Still , still , I ...
... present moments , and regret the past ; Depriv'd of every joy I valued most , My friend torn from me , and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear , this anxious mien , The dull effect of humour , or of spleen ! Still , still , I ...
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acquaintance admirable affection affectionate affliction afford amiable amuse appears Atossa believe benevolent Bishop of Galloway blessing Brother celebrated censure character Christian correspondence Cowper dear Cousin DEAR FRIEND delight display divine English Epistles epistolary Esqr esteem expression favour feel friendship give grace happy heart honour hope Huntingdon interesting JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL labour Lady HESKETH language least live Lord Lord Hervey Lord Peterborough mean ment mercy mind mother nature never obliged observe occasion Olney peculiar perhaps person Phalaris pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope powerful praise present racter reader reason received recollect religious remarkable remember respect Revd Sappho Scripture seems sentiments speak spect spirit suppose sure talents temper tender thank thee Themistius thing thou thought Tibullus tion truth verse virtues volume W. C. LETTER William Cowper WILLIAM UNWIN wish word write written wrote young
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Pagina 16 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Pagina xlv - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or...
Pagina xlv - All this, and more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...
Pagina 90 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
Pagina 102 - ... within doors or sing some hymns of Martin's collection, and by the help of Mrs. Unwin's harpsichord make up a tolerable concert in which our hearts, I hope, are the best and most musical performers. After tea we sally forth to walk in good earnest. Mrs. Unwin is a good walker, and we have generally travelled about four miles before we see home again.
Pagina 237 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Pagina 184 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes.
Pagina 54 - ... built as upon a rock : the fall of man, the redemption of man, and the resurrection of man, the three cardinal articles of our religion, are such as human ingenuity could never have invented, therefore they must be divine; the other argument is this. If the prophecies have been fulfilled (of which there is abundant demonstration) the Scripture must be the word of God, and if the Scripture is the word of God, Christianity must be true.
Pagina 270 - I have writ Charity, not for popularity, but as well as I could, in hopes to do good ; and if the reviewer should say, " To be sure, the gentleman's muse, wears Methodist shoes ; you may know by her pace, and talk about grace, that she and her bard have little regard, for the taste and fashions, and ruling passions, and...
Pagina 288 - With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.