The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1905 - 741 páginas |
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... present a more accurate text than has hitherto been accessible , to record such various readings as are afforded by manuscripts or by the different editions , and to add some illustrations both of the poems and of the poet's life from ...
... present a more accurate text than has hitherto been accessible , to record such various readings as are afforded by manuscripts or by the different editions , and to add some illustrations both of the poems and of the poet's life from ...
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... present work . To Canon Johnson I am also indebted for photographs of the portrait by Abbott , of the miniature by Blake , taken from the Romney portrait , of the seal given to the poet by Theodora Cowper , and of the picture by ...
... present work . To Canon Johnson I am also indebted for photographs of the portrait by Abbott , of the miniature by Blake , taken from the Romney portrait , of the seal given to the poet by Theodora Cowper , and of the picture by ...
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... same Bust Translation by the Author To a Young Friend • On a Portrait of Himself • Thanks for a Present of Pheasants A Tale • 495 495 496 496 496 496 PA PAGE POSTHUMOUS POEMS OF MIDDLE AND LATER LIFE - CONTENTS xxiii.
... same Bust Translation by the Author To a Young Friend • On a Portrait of Himself • Thanks for a Present of Pheasants A Tale • 495 495 496 496 496 496 PA PAGE POSTHUMOUS POEMS OF MIDDLE AND LATER LIFE - CONTENTS xxiii.
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... presents , and promised an annuity of fifty pounds ; his uncle offered to come and see him , and Lady Hesketh came ... present , with his new friends , his new house , and the new book he had undertaken , Cowper was busier and happier ...
... presents , and promised an annuity of fifty pounds ; his uncle offered to come and see him , and Lady Hesketh came ... present , with his new friends , his new house , and the new book he had undertaken , Cowper was busier and happier ...
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... present vantage ground , all is there from the first , to be found by searching , imbedded even in the rather arid sermons of the volume of 1782. Still more easily is it to be found in the youthful pieces which were not printed till ...
... present vantage ground , all is there from the first , to be found by searching , imbedded even in the rather arid sermons of the volume of 1782. Still more easily is it to be found in the youthful pieces which were not printed till ...
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Términos y frases comunes
beauty beneath Benham blest boast Bodham breast British Museum charms Child & Co DEAR FRIEND death delight divine dream earth edition eyes fair fame fancy fear feel GEORGE ROMNEY give glory grace hand happy hast Hayley Hayley's heart heaven Hill Homer honour hope John John Fenn John Gilpin John Johnson Johnson Joseph Hill labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh letter lines live Lord lyre mind Muse nature never Newton numbers o'er Olney Olney Hymns once pain peace perhaps pleasure poem poet poet's praise printed prove rest scene scorn seems shade shine skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound Southey stanza sweet Task tears tell thee theme thine things thou art thought translation truth Unwin Vaughan Johnson verse Vincent Bourne virtue Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER wish Yaxham youth
Pasajes populares
Página 39 - Dear dying Lamb ! Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed church of God Be saved, to sin no more.
Página 31 - OH for a closer walk with God ! A calm and heavenly frame ; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb...
Página 271 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt ; in language plain, And plain in manner ; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture ; much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it, too ; affectionate in look And tender in address,...
Página 429 - Toll for the brave ! Brave KEMPENFELT is gone ! His last sea-fight is fought ! His work of glory done ! It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ! She sprang no fatal leak ! She ran upon no rock...
Página 300 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 215 - 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. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 386 - Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ? His fame soon spread around, He carries weight, he rides a race, 'Tis for a thousand pound.
Página 265 - Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ! that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Página 49 - The hand that gave it, still supplies The gracious light and heat ; His truths upon the nations rise, They rise, but never set. 4 Let everlasting thanks be thine, For such a bright display, As makes a world of darkness shine With beams of heavenly day.
Página 332 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. — His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who with filial confidence inspired Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —