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Pagina 33
... observing . They would lodge and board under our roof , and be in all respects accommodated and attended in a manner that would well warrant the demand of an hundred guineas per annum . You have often wished me an employment , and I ...
... observing . They would lodge and board under our roof , and be in all respects accommodated and attended in a manner that would well warrant the demand of an hundred guineas per annum . You have often wished me an employment , and I ...
Pagina 61
... the two ingredients I hardly know which made your letter the most agreeable— ( observe , I do not say the most acceptable . ) The draft indeed was welcome ; but though it was so , yet it did not make TO THE REV . JOHN NEWTON . 61.
... the two ingredients I hardly know which made your letter the most agreeable— ( observe , I do not say the most acceptable . ) The draft indeed was welcome ; but though it was so , yet it did not make TO THE REV . JOHN NEWTON . 61.
Pagina 81
... observation that naturally occurs upon the occasion , and which many other occasions furnish an opportunity to make , that people long for what they have not , and overlook the good in their possession . This is so true in the pre- sent ...
... observation that naturally occurs upon the occasion , and which many other occasions furnish an opportunity to make , that people long for what they have not , and overlook the good in their possession . This is so true in the pre- sent ...
Pagina 93
... observe , however , for your comfort and the honour of that same pipe , that it hardly falls within the line of my censure . You never fumigate the ladies , or force them out of com- pany ; nor do you use it as an incentive to hard ...
... observe , however , for your comfort and the honour of that same pipe , that it hardly falls within the line of my censure . You never fumigate the ladies , or force them out of com- pany ; nor do you use it as an incentive to hard ...
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... observation might as well have been spared entirely ; though I should have been sorry if it had , for when I am jocular I do violence to myself , and am therefore pleased with your telling them , in a civil way , that I play the fool to ...
... observation might as well have been spared entirely ; though I should have been sorry if it had , for when I am jocular I do violence to myself , and am therefore pleased with your telling them , in a civil way , that I play the fool to ...
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Letters. Papers in the Connoisseur. Fragments of a commentary on Paradise lost William Cowper Volledige weergave - 1837 |
Letters. Papers in the Connoisseur. Fragments of a commentary on Paradise lost William Cowper Volledige weergave - 1837 |
Letters. Papers in the Connoisseur. Fragments of a commentary on Paradise lost William Cowper Volledige weergave - 1837 |
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Pagina 338 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom : Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Pagina 332 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Pagina 336 - But I say, Did not Israel know ? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. 20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not ; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
Pagina 141 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Pagina 303 - But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God...
Pagina 134 - ... his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should, but I could not forbear to inform you how the beadle threshed the thief, the constable the beadle, and the lady the constable, and how the thief was the only person concerned who suffered nothing.
Pagina 56 - Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at the door of my intellects, and still more that it should gain admittance. It is as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited in state. His antic gesticulations would be unseasonable at any rate, but more especially so if they should distort the features of the mournful attendants into laughter. But the mind long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on...
Pagina 328 - Both battles main, with ruinous assault And inextinguishable rage. All heaven Resounded ; and had earth been then, all earth Had to her centre shook.
Pagina 302 - If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Pagina 302 - And bended dolphins play ; part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean...