The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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Page vii
... eyes became affected with specks , and he was in danger of losing his sight . He was placed for two years with an eminent oculist , " to no good purpose , " by his own account , so far as education or religion were concerned . His eyes ...
... eyes became affected with specks , and he was in danger of losing his sight . He was placed for two years with an eminent oculist , " to no good purpose , " by his own account , so far as education or religion were concerned . His eyes ...
Page xi
... eyes . On his return to London , however , Satan , he says , tempted him to believe that this deliverance had been produced simply by change of scene , and was , like the melancholy which preceded it , a mockery and delusion ; so he ...
... eyes . On his return to London , however , Satan , he says , tempted him to believe that this deliverance had been produced simply by change of scene , and was , like the melancholy which preceded it , a mockery and delusion ; so he ...
Page xv
... eyes . He heard the flaming sword of Eden turning audibly over his head , a sound mingled with the distant moaning of the waves of hell . In vain he sought relief from books ; every page he opened seemed bor- dered by the blackness of ...
... eyes . He heard the flaming sword of Eden turning audibly over his head , a sound mingled with the distant moaning of the waves of hell . In vain he sought relief from books ; every page he opened seemed bor- dered by the blackness of ...
Page xxiii
... eyes are filled with tears , as he compares his own miseries - past , present , and to come - with those still darker woes which were overwhelming his gentle brother bard . Thus for several years ran the still dim current of Cowper's ...
... eyes are filled with tears , as he compares his own miseries - past , present , and to come - with those still darker woes which were overwhelming his gentle brother bard . Thus for several years ran the still dim current of Cowper's ...
Page xxv
... eyes in death . He had said some days . before , when asked how he felt , " Feel ! I feel unutterable de- spair ! " His last words were , to a lady who offered him a cordial , " What does it signify ? " He was buried in Dereham Church ...
... eyes in death . He had said some days . before , when asked how he felt , " Feel ! I feel unutterable de- spair ! " His last words were , to a lady who offered him a cordial , " What does it signify ? " He was buried in Dereham Church ...
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