The Correspondence of William Cowper: Arranged in Chronological Order with Annotations, Bind 3Hodder and Stoughton, 1904 - 497 sider |
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Adieu affectionate agreeable amusement answer arrived assure believe Bodham called comfort compliments copy COWPER dear friend DEAR FRIEND,-I dearest cousin dined expect favour feel Frog Gayhurst Gentleman's Magazine George Throckmorton give glad happy hear heard HESKETH The Lodge hither Homer honour hope Iliad JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind King labour LADY HESKETH lately least letter live London mean mention mind morning neighbours never obliged occasion Odyssey Olney once opportunity perhaps Pertenhall pleasure poem poet poor possible present reason received rejoice respects SAMUEL ROSE seems seen sensible sent soon spirits suppose tell thanks thee thing thou thought Throck Throckmorton told translating Homer translation truly truth Unwin verses W. C. TO LADY walk WALTER BAGOT Weston Underwood whole wish write wrote yesterday
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Side 225 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Side 454 - Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Ah; who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge?
Side 17 - Hope deferred maketh the heart sick : but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Side 99 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Side 435 - I would hope both of his and of her , I know not what to call it, without seeming to praise myself, which is not my intention, but speaking to you, I will even speak out, and say good nature. Add to all this, I deal much in poetry, as did our venerable ancestor, the Dean of St. Paul's, and I think I shall have proved myself a Donne at all points. The truth is, that whatever I am, I love you all.
Side 145 - Poems, and have read them twice ; and, though they be written in a language that is new to me, and many of them on subjects much inferior to the author's ability, I think them, on the whole, a very extraordinary production.
Side 183 - On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired to speak with me. I ordered him in. A plain, decent, elderly figure made its appearance, and being desired to sit, spoke as follows ; " Sir, I am clerk of the parish of All-saints in Northampton ; brother of Mr C.
Side 452 - I am very much of Lavater's opinion, and persuaded that faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
Side 89 - The pitiful scribbler of his life seems to have undertaken that task, for which he was entirely unqualified, merely because it afforded him an opportunity to traduce him.
Side 91 - In short, it is not his least praise that he is never guilty of those faults as a writer, which he lays to the charge of others. A proof that he did not judge by a borrowed standard, or from rules laid down by critics, but that he was qualified to do it by his own native powers, and his great superiority of genius. For he that 'wrote so much, and so fast, would through...