The Poetical Works of William Cowper. With Life of the AuthorMilner and Sowerby, 1864 - 448 pages |
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Page v
... feel con- fident that no one will have the presumption to call that in question . Cowper was the descendant of an ancient and honorable family , which resided in Sussex , about the middle of the seventeenth century , when William Cowper ...
... feel con- fident that no one will have the presumption to call that in question . Cowper was the descendant of an ancient and honorable family , which resided in Sussex , about the middle of the seventeenth century , when William Cowper ...
Page viii
... feeling which sub- sisted between our author and this family appears to have been the happiest period of his life . After a short time of friendly and social meetings , Cow- per felt a desire to take up his abode with this family , and ...
... feeling which sub- sisted between our author and this family appears to have been the happiest period of his life . After a short time of friendly and social meetings , Cow- per felt a desire to take up his abode with this family , and ...
Page ix
... feeling the assurance that he had been , from all eternity , destined for a place among the saints of the Most High . These illusions of predestina- tion appear to have bound him , in each case , as with an iron spell . In the autumn of ...
... feeling the assurance that he had been , from all eternity , destined for a place among the saints of the Most High . These illusions of predestina- tion appear to have bound him , in each case , as with an iron spell . In the autumn of ...
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... feels ; Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief monster that has plagued the nations yet . The globe and sceptre in such hands misplac'd , Those ensigns of dominion , how disgrac'd ! The glass , that bids man mark the ...
... feels ; Then view him self - proclaim'd in a gazette , Chief monster that has plagued the nations yet . The globe and sceptre in such hands misplac'd , Those ensigns of dominion , how disgrac'd ! The glass , that bids man mark the ...
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... feels , Hook disappointment on the public wheels ; With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Most confident , when palpably most wrong ; If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the ...
... feels , Hook disappointment on the public wheels ; With all their flippant fluency of tongue , Most confident , when palpably most wrong ; If this be kingly , then farewell for me All kingship ; and may I be poor and free ! To be the ...
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Aspasio beauty beneath bids blest boast breath call'd cause charms Cowper death delight design'd divine dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fear feel fire flowers folly form'd frown fruit give glory grace hand happy hast heart heaven honour hope hour House of Lords human John Gilpin labour land learn'd light lost lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nature's Nebaioth never nymph o'er once pain pass'd peace perhaps pine-apples pity pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound spleen Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thou art thought toil tongue trembling trifler truth Twas virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom wonder worth youth