The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations, Volumen6H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... Tell . " ] With Portrait of Wallenstein . 13 : MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF COLONEL HUTCHINSON . By his Widow : with an " Account of the Siege of Lathom House . " Portrait . 14. MEMOIRS OF BENVENUTO CELLINI , by HIMSELF . By RoscoE . Portrait ...
... Tell . " ] With Portrait of Wallenstein . 13 : MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF COLONEL HUTCHINSON . By his Widow : with an " Account of the Siege of Lathom House . " Portrait . 14. MEMOIRS OF BENVENUTO CELLINI , by HIMSELF . By RoscoE . Portrait ...
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... 17 ' Twere long to tell the expedients and the shifts Which he that fights a season so severe Devises . Nat . Lee . Book iii . 559 . Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and D 2 B. II . 35 THE TASK . Book III.
... 17 ' Twere long to tell the expedients and the shifts Which he that fights a season so severe Devises . Nat . Lee . Book iii . 559 . Are occupations of the poet's mind So pleasing , and D 2 B. II . 35 THE TASK . Book III.
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... tell me , dignified and sapient sir , My man of morals , nurtured in the shades Of Academus , is this false or true ? 525 530 Is Christ the abler teacher , or the schools ? If Christ , then why resort at every turn To Athens or to Rome ...
... tell me , dignified and sapient sir , My man of morals , nurtured in the shades Of Academus , is this false or true ? 525 530 Is Christ the abler teacher , or the schools ? If Christ , then why resort at every turn To Athens or to Rome ...
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... tell its slumbers and to paint its dreams , Have rambled wide . In country , city , seat Of academic fame , ( howe'er deserved , ) Long held and scarcely disengaged at last . But now with pleasant pace , a cleanlier road I mean to tread ...
... tell its slumbers and to paint its dreams , Have rambled wide . In country , city , seat Of academic fame , ( howe'er deserved , ) Long held and scarcely disengaged at last . But now with pleasant pace , a cleanlier road I mean to tread ...
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... passion . - Rochefoucald . Maxim vii . These leave the sense their learning to display , And these explain the meaning quite away . Pope . Essay on Crit . 116 . And tell us whence the stars ; why some are B. III . 55 THE TASK .
... passion . - Rochefoucald . Maxim vii . These leave the sense their learning to display , And these explain the meaning quite away . Pope . Essay on Crit . 116 . And tell us whence the stars ; why some are B. III . 55 THE TASK .
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Página 178 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear — Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will £11 the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Página 183 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung ; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul cried out, Well done!
Página 73 - 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; Silence was pleased. Now...
Página 134 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 66 - 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 41 - Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 186 - And galloped off with all his might As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig ; He lost them sooner than at first, For why ? they were too big. Now...
Página 184 - But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why ? his owner had a house Full ten miles off at Ware.
Página 182 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might.