The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volumen1W. Pickering, 1853 |
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... proved far more attractive , and to their charms he seems to have refigned himfelf . The fruits of his intercourse with the Muses were given to the world as the off- springs of others , and though happy in his friends , he was , from ...
... proved far more attractive , and to their charms he seems to have refigned himfelf . The fruits of his intercourse with the Muses were given to the world as the off- springs of others , and though happy in his friends , he was , from ...
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... prove irksome to others . A painter who fhould confine himself in the exercise of his art to the drawing of his own picture , must be a wonder- ful coxcomb , if he did not foon grow fick of his occupation , and be peculiarly fortunate ...
... prove irksome to others . A painter who fhould confine himself in the exercise of his art to the drawing of his own picture , must be a wonder- ful coxcomb , if he did not foon grow fick of his occupation , and be peculiarly fortunate ...
Página xxiv
... prove agreeable to you . My mind has always a melancholy caft , and is like fome pools I have feen , which , though filled with a black and putrid water , will nevertheless , in a bright day , reflect the funbeams from their surface ...
... prove agreeable to you . My mind has always a melancholy caft , and is like fome pools I have feen , which , though filled with a black and putrid water , will nevertheless , in a bright day , reflect the funbeams from their surface ...
Página xli
... prove that he was fully fenfible of the magnitude of the effort . His mind was in deed nearly abforbed with the subject , and whatever may be the opinion of his fuccefs , no one can doubt that he taxed his powers to the uttermoft to ...
... prove that he was fully fenfible of the magnitude of the effort . His mind was in deed nearly abforbed with the subject , and whatever may be the opinion of his fuccefs , no one can doubt that he taxed his powers to the uttermoft to ...
Página xliii
... as much a part of the difpenfation as the leading points of it themselves ; the effect , as much as the cause . If his purposes in thus directing me are gracious , he will take care to prove them fuch MEMOIR OF COWPER . xliii.
... as much a part of the difpenfation as the leading points of it themselves ; the effect , as much as the cause . If his purposes in thus directing me are gracious , he will take care to prove them fuch MEMOIR OF COWPER . xliii.
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Página 241 - Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin— who but he ; His fame soon spread around — He carries weight, he rides a race, 'Tis for a thousand pound.
Página 198 - 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 199 - But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot.
Página 238 - He soon replied, I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.
Página 362 - Could catch the sound no more: For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him: but the page Of narrative sincere...
Página 239 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more.
Página 152 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Página 212 - And it seem'd to a fanciful view To weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas! I snapp'd it, it fell to the ground. And such...
Página 117 - Tis thus Omnipotence his law fulfils, And vengeance executes what justice wills. Again— the band of commerce was designed To associate all the branches of mankind ; And if a boundless plenty be the robe, Trade is the golden girdle of the globe.
Página 246 - Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...