The Life of William Cowper

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T.F. Unwin, 1892 - 681 páginas

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The Nonsense Club
64
Charles Churchill
72
Death of the Poets Father July 9 1756
75
The Farewell to Theodora probably 1756
77
In Love a Second Time The Greenwich Beauty
79
Literary and other Amusements
80
Cowper at the Inner Temple
85
Cowpers Poverty
88
The House of Lords Affair 1763
90
At Margate August and September 1763
93
The Second Derangement
96
Laudanum and the River November 1763
98
On the Brink of Eternity
102
Newtons Relations with Cowper November 1784
105
Damned below Judas
107
CHAPTER V
113
The Clouds begin to Break
115
CHAPTER VI
125
Early Days at Huntingdon
127
Huntingdon in Cowpers Days
129
Sephus and Lady Hesketh
131
The Knight of the Bloody Spur
134
The Unwins
136
Cowper as an Economist
140
Cowper thinks of becoming a Clergyman
151
The Removal to Olney
159
THE INSEPARABLE FRIENDS
163
Early Days at Olney
171
The Influence of John Newton on Cowper
179
The Removal of Unwin to Stock and other Incidents of 1769
183
The Death of his Brother John March 1770
189
At the Bull 1771
196
CHAPTER IX
205
Cowpers Fondness for Fish
221
The Fire at Olney October 1777
227
Cowper and Scott
233
Newtons Visit to Olney June 1781
236
Newton removes to London January 1780
240
1
245
A Head once endued with a Legal Periwig
251
The Lacemakers June 1780
257
CHAPTER XII
265
Hope Charity Conversation and Retirement June to September 1781
284
The Fracas January 1782
287
THE RECONCILIATION OR FROM THE publi CATION OF HIS FIRST VOLUME TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TASK Feb 1782July 1...
297
The Case of Simon Browne
301
Lady Austen again June 1782
303
The Woman in a Nuns Hood August 1782
306
John Gilpin October 1782
310
Mr Smiths Almoner November 1782
317
Cowper and America January 1783
322
THE WRITING OF THE TASK July 1783June 1785
327
Reading Aloud 327
329
Finding a Publisher October 1784
365
The Commencement of Homer November 12 1784
372
Various other Olney Folk May 1785
380
The Nutshell of a Summerhouse June 1785
386
Publication of the Task June 1785
392
The Renewal of his Correspondence with Lady Hesketh
399
At the end of the Iliad January 1786
407
Preparations for the Arrival of Lady Hesketh Spring 1786
413
The Famous Parlour
421
The Arrival of Lady Hesketh at Olney June 1786
426
125
431
The Old House at Olney
435
127
439
The Death of Unwin November 29 1786
441
129
443
131
448
The Fourth Derangement January to June 1787
450
134
457
137
465
The Five Slave Ballads Spring 1788
471
140
473
Mungo the Marquis and Beau
479
Cowpers
487
Mrs Kings Douceurs
493
The Cuckoo Clock and the Hamper June 1789
500
January and the Moon February 1790
509
Cowper is delivered of two or three other Brats March 1790
516
The Visit of Mrs King and the Completion of Homer Sep
522
The Four Ages May 1791
531
The Bodhams stay a Parsons Week
538
Cowpers Profile made by Mr Higgins 1791
546
CHAPTER XX
551
Hayleys First Visit May 1792
559
339 343
564
The Journey to Eartham August
568
EARTHAM
572
The Epitaph on Fop August 25th
577
CHAPTER XXII
585
The Miltonic Trap December 1792
594
The Quadruple Alliance July 7 1793
604
The Portrait by Lawrence and the Lines To Mary
615
Hayleys Second Visit November 1793
619
CHAPTER XXIII
627
Hannahs Extravagance
633
IN NORFOLK
637
Dunham Lodge October 1795September 1796
645
What can it Signify? April 25 1800
655
46
661
and his Works from 1798 to the present year 1891
668
260
675
Newtons Cross
677
351
680
356
681

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Página 359 - From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.
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