The Poetical Works of William CowperWarne, 1872 - 611 pages |
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Page xxiv
... delight the first smile of the melancholy man . Then he proposed that Cowper should return to his own home , and the patient eagerly consented . During the whole period of his derangement Mrs. Unwin had mani- fested the most ...
... delight the first smile of the melancholy man . Then he proposed that Cowper should return to his own home , and the patient eagerly consented . During the whole period of his derangement Mrs. Unwin had mani- fested the most ...
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... delight when at last he received a letter from Lady Hesketh - the first received for nineteen years ! His friends - his old schoolfellows - all were won back by his genius ; those who had shrunk from the ( supposed ) gloomy fanatic ...
... delight when at last he received a letter from Lady Hesketh - the first received for nineteen years ! His friends - his old schoolfellows - all were won back by his genius ; those who had shrunk from the ( supposed ) gloomy fanatic ...
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... delights the happy - palls with me ! UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL . FULL thirty frosts since thou wert young Have chill'd the wither'd grove , Thou wretch ! and hast thou lived so long , Nor yet forgot to love ! Ye Sages ! spite of your ...
... delights the happy - palls with me ! UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL . FULL thirty frosts since thou wert young Have chill'd the wither'd grove , Thou wretch ! and hast thou lived so long , Nor yet forgot to love ! Ye Sages ! spite of your ...
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... delights of man Should spring from sympathy . Tis nature bids , and whilst the laws Of nature we retain , Our self - approving bosom draws A pleasure from its pain . Thus grief itself has comforts dear , The sordid never know ; And ...
... delights of man Should spring from sympathy . Tis nature bids , and whilst the laws Of nature we retain , Our self - approving bosom draws A pleasure from its pain . Thus grief itself has comforts dear , The sordid never know ; And ...
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... delight , But ill compares with ancient song , Where Genius pour'd its flood along ; Yet such is Art's presumptuous idle claim , She marshals out the way to modern fame ; From Grecian fable's pompous lore Description's studied ...
... delight , But ill compares with ancient song , Where Genius pour'd its flood along ; Yet such is Art's presumptuous idle claim , She marshals out the way to modern fame ; From Grecian fable's pompous lore Description's studied ...
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ANTISTROPHE bard beauty beneath boast Boötes bosom breast breath call'd charms Clifton Reynes Cowper dear death delight divine dream earth ease eyes fair faith fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly give glory Gordon riots grace groves hand happy hear heart Heaven heavenly honour hope hour John Gilpin JOHN MILTON John Throckmorton kings labour light live Lord lost lyre mind Muse Nathaniel Cotton nature never night numbers nymphs o'er once pain Pallas Parnassian peace Phoebus pleasure poet praise prove rest rills sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shade shine shore sigh sight skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound Stamp'd stream sweet taste tears thee theme thine thou art thou hast thought toil trembling truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth