The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Том 1William Pickering, 1830 |
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... perhaps , a man in health , and with a head turned to business , might have gained all the information he wanted . But it was not so with me . I read without perception , and was so distressed , that had every clerk in the office been ...
... perhaps , a man in health , and with a head turned to business , might have gained all the information he wanted . But it was not so with me . I read without perception , and was so distressed , that had every clerk in the office been ...
Стр. xxxiii
... , and to put by the disagreeable recollec- tion that I must , after all , go home and be whipt again . It will not be long , perhaps , before you will receive a poem , called the Progress of Error MEMOIR OF COWPER . xxxiii.
... , and to put by the disagreeable recollec- tion that I must , after all , go home and be whipt again . It will not be long , perhaps , before you will receive a poem , called the Progress of Error MEMOIR OF COWPER . xxxiii.
Стр. xxxv
... perhaps few poets could , that though I have no objec- tion to lucrative consequences , if any such should follow , they are not my aim ; much less is it my ambition to exhibit myself to the world as a genius MEMOIR OF COWPER . XXXV.
... perhaps few poets could , that though I have no objec- tion to lucrative consequences , if any such should follow , they are not my aim ; much less is it my ambition to exhibit myself to the world as a genius MEMOIR OF COWPER . XXXV.
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... perhaps at the first view ; and while you allow me a right of decision in the last instance , if I go into public with any uncorrected faults upon my head , the blame and the disgrace will be all my own . You will per- ceive that I have ...
... perhaps at the first view ; and while you allow me a right of decision in the last instance , if I go into public with any uncorrected faults upon my head , the blame and the disgrace will be all my own . You will per- ceive that I have ...
Стр. xlvi
... perhaps in degree , but in their kind the same . " Cowper's observations upon the Ocean , which occur in a letter , dated September , 1781 , are ex- tremely poetical : " I think with you , that the most magnificent object under heaven ...
... perhaps in degree , but in their kind the same . " Cowper's observations upon the Ocean , which occur in a letter , dated September , 1781 , are ex- tremely poetical : " I think with you , that the most magnificent object under heaven ...
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Стр. 205 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Стр. 256 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Стр. 243 - I'll go too, He will lose none by me, though I get a few." His scruples thus silenced, Tom felt more at ease, And went with his comrades the apples to seize ; He blamed and protested, but join'd in the plan : He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man.
Стр. 195 - I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper— solitude is sweet.
Стр. 208 - So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT • OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.
Стр. xi - I was struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they who have felt the same, can have the least conception of. Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair.^ I presently lost all relish for those studies to which I had before * Ashley Cowper, Esq.
Стр. 246 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Стр. 191 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace : Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind- quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Стр. 139 - Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign...
Стр. xiv - They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none.