The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1James Nichol, 1854 - 416 pages |
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... beauty , accomplishments , and more than ordinary understanding . The attachment was warmly returned , and would have been consummated in mar- riage , had not , first , his circumstances been LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER . xi.
... beauty , accomplishments , and more than ordinary understanding . The attachment was warmly returned , and would have been consummated in mar- riage , had not , first , his circumstances been LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER . xi.
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... beauty , charmed by the manners , attracted by the mind , cheered by the wit , and overpowered by the sympathies of this lady ; and she , on her side , admired to enthusiasm the genius , adored the virtues , felt the force of the ...
... beauty , charmed by the manners , attracted by the mind , cheered by the wit , and overpowered by the sympathies of this lady ; and she , on her side , admired to enthusiasm the genius , adored the virtues , felt the force of the ...
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... beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When labour and when dulness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measured time , The clockwork tintinnabulum of ...
... beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When labour and when dulness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measured time , The clockwork tintinnabulum of ...
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... beauty shone A meteor or a star ; in these , the sun . The nightingale may claim the topmost bough , While the poor grasshopper must chirp below . Like him unnoticed , I , and such as I , Spread little wings , and rather skip than fly ...
... beauty shone A meteor or a star ; in these , the sun . The nightingale may claim the topmost bough , While the poor grasshopper must chirp below . Like him unnoticed , I , and such as I , Spread little wings , and rather skip than fly ...
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... beauty dress'd , Looks to the westward from the dappled east , And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet his race begins , its glorious close ; An eye like his to catch the distant goal , Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to ...
... beauty dress'd , Looks to the westward from the dappled east , And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet his race begins , its glorious close ; An eye like his to catch the distant goal , Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to ...
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