The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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Page viii
... minds with his , and to make the evenings of his holidays as delightful as the morns . Seldom has there met in any school a more brilliant assemblage of persons , afterwards renowned , than there did then at Westminster . There was the ...
... minds with his , and to make the evenings of his holidays as delightful as the morns . Seldom has there met in any school a more brilliant assemblage of persons , afterwards renowned , than there did then at Westminster . There was the ...
Page xiii
... mind to be idle . He kept up his acquaintance with Latin and Greek , and read through all the Iliad and Odyssey , carefully and critically , with a friend , having gone over them before , more rapidly and slightly , at Westminster ...
... mind to be idle . He kept up his acquaintance with Latin and Greek , and read through all the Iliad and Odyssey , carefully and critically , with a friend , having gone over them before , more rapidly and slightly , at Westminster ...
Page xvi
... mind , sitting at the feet of Jesus . Although perfectly restored , he continued for a whole additional year at St Albans , enjoying friendly and Christian communion with the amiable , talented , and pious man who had been one important ...
... mind , sitting at the feet of Jesus . Although perfectly restored , he continued for a whole additional year at St Albans , enjoying friendly and Christian communion with the amiable , talented , and pious man who had been one important ...
Page xviii
... mind , in the intense imagination which influenced his percep- tions , and in the picturesque simplicity of his style , not to speak of the kindred struggles and misadventures through which both had attained peace . His " Narrative " is ...
... mind , in the intense imagination which influenced his percep- tions , and in the picturesque simplicity of his style , not to speak of the kindred struggles and misadventures through which both had attained peace . His " Narrative " is ...
Page xix
... mind diseased , let us rather pity than blame the physicians , and at all events , in God's name , let us not reflect upon the remedy ! The malady was beyond them , and beyond man , and beyond time , and so afterwards it was abundantly ...
... mind diseased , let us rather pity than blame the physicians , and at all events , in God's name , let us not reflect upon the remedy ! The malady was beyond them , and beyond man , and beyond time , and so afterwards it was abundantly ...
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