The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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Page vi
... darker form in her son . She died in 1737 , at the age of thirty - four , in childbirth , leaving , of several ... dark horrors of his derangement . He says , " I well remember being afraid to lift my eyes upon him higher than his ...
... darker form in her son . She died in 1737 , at the age of thirty - four , in childbirth , leaving , of several ... dark horrors of his derangement . He says , " I well remember being afraid to lift my eyes upon him higher than his ...
Page vii
... darkness . He had , indeed , then , as in every other portion of his life , some nervous apprehensions to con- tend with . His special hallucination at this time was a notion that he was consumptive , and was soon to die . Such dreams ...
... darkness . He had , indeed , then , as in every other portion of his life , some nervous apprehensions to con- tend with . His special hallucination at this time was a notion that he was consumptive , and was soon to die . Such dreams ...
Page xv
... darkness ; his nights , nights of despair . Satan , he ima- gined , had become a constant inmate of his soul , and was tormenting him before the time , —now in his waking hours by horrible suggestions , and now in sleep by the dark ...
... darkness ; his nights , nights of despair . Satan , he ima- gined , had become a constant inmate of his soul , and was tormenting him before the time , —now in his waking hours by horrible suggestions , and now in sleep by the dark ...
Page xvi
... dark associations were connected . Wordsworth , in his " Ruth , " speaking of the rocks and scenery which , by nursing a romantic and ill - regulated sensibility , had wrought her ruin , adds- " She never charged them with the wrongs ...
... dark associations were connected . Wordsworth , in his " Ruth , " speaking of the rocks and scenery which , by nursing a romantic and ill - regulated sensibility , had wrought her ruin , adds- " She never charged them with the wrongs ...
Page xvii
... dark- ness . London gave itself no concern at his retreat . He had as yet made no name , and not one of its public journals or public men cried " stole away " to this wounded hare , or cared to track , by the spilt blood - drops , the ...
... dark- ness . London gave itself no concern at his retreat . He had as yet made no name , and not one of its public journals or public men cried " stole away " to this wounded hare , or cared to track , by the spilt blood - drops , the ...
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