The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1Nichol, 1854 - 428 pages |
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Page vi
... fancy a special victim of his ire , and treated . him with a revolting barbarity , which haunted Cowper's memory till the latest hour of his life , came back upon his dreams , and deepened the dark horrors of his derangement . He says ...
... fancy a special victim of his ire , and treated . him with a revolting barbarity , which haunted Cowper's memory till the latest hour of his life , came back upon his dreams , and deepened the dark horrors of his derangement . He says ...
Page x
... fancy and 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 ...
... fancy and 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 ...
Page xxi
... fancy that her departure was a blessing , often , we doubt not , sighed in secret at the memory of the halcyon days when " her conversation had as happy an effect upon his melan- choly spirit as the harp of David upon Saul . " 99 She ...
... fancy that her departure was a blessing , often , we doubt not , sighed in secret at the memory of the halcyon days when " her conversation had as happy an effect upon his melan- choly spirit as the harp of David upon Saul . " 99 She ...
Page xxiii
... fancy the particu- lars of their meeting - the timid and gentlemanly recluse of Olney shrinking somewhat at first from the brawny gauger , with his swarthy visage , his slouching gait , his buckskin breeches , his strong Ayrshire accent ...
... fancy the particu- lars of their meeting - the timid and gentlemanly recluse of Olney shrinking somewhat at first from the brawny gauger , with his swarthy visage , his slouching gait , his buckskin breeches , his strong Ayrshire accent ...
Page 10
... Fancy's nurse , Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; IIeroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where Winter breathes his keenest air , And I will sing , if Liberty be ...
... Fancy's nurse , Lost without thee the ennobling powers of verse ; IIeroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where Winter breathes his keenest air , And I will sing , if Liberty be ...
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