The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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Page x
... fire . But he took little interest in the study . One precious day he was permitted to call his own - the Sabbath and that he uniformly spent ( as well as parts of most of his week - days ) at his aunt's , in Southampton Row , where ...
... fire . But he took little interest in the study . One precious day he was permitted to call his own - the Sabbath and that he uniformly spent ( as well as parts of most of his week - days ) at his aunt's , in Southampton Row , where ...
Page xv
... fire before his 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 ...
... fire before his 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 ...
Page xxiii
... fire- blooded style , " What a glorious poem is Cowper's ' Task ' ! " One is tempted to wish that these two truest men , and most popular poets of their day , had met , and to fancy the particu- lars of their meeting - the timid and ...
... fire- blooded style , " What a glorious poem is Cowper's ' Task ' ! " One is tempted to wish that these two truest men , and most popular poets of their day , had met , and to fancy the particu- lars of their meeting - the timid and ...
Page 2
... fire at their heroic deeds , Unworthy of the blessings of the brave , Is base in kind , and born to be a slave . But let eternal infamy pursue 20 20 30 The wretch to nought but his ambition true , Who , for the sake of filling with one ...
... fire at their heroic deeds , Unworthy of the blessings of the brave , Is base in kind , and born to be a slave . But let eternal infamy pursue 20 20 30 The wretch to nought but his ambition true , Who , for the sake of filling with one ...
Page 8
... fires . Patient of constitutional control , He bears it with meek manliness of soul ; But if authority grow wanton , woe To him that treads upon his free - born toe ! One step beyond the boundary of the laws Fires him at once in ...
... fires . Patient of constitutional control , He bears it with meek manliness of soul ; But if authority grow wanton , woe To him that treads upon his free - born toe ! One step beyond the boundary of the laws Fires him at once in ...
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