Letters of William Cowper, Volumen1Macmillan, 1912 - 428 páginas |
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acquaintance admire affection affectionate afford agreeable amusement answer attention believe called character Charles Lamb Cowper dear cousin DEAR FRIEND DEAR WILLIAM doubt Eartham favour feel garden gentleman give glad hand happy Hayley heart Homer honour hope Huntingdon Iliad J. G. FRAZER John Gilpin John Newton John Throckmorton Johnson Joseph Hill judgement labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh least less letter live London Lord Margate mean melancholy ment mind morning mother never night obliged observe occasion Olney once Orpington perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetical possible present reason received recollect remember seems sensible sent Silver End soon spirits suffered summer suppose taste tell thank thing thought Throckmorton Tibullus tion translation verse volume walk Weston Weston Underwood William Bull WILLIAM COWPER William Unwin winter wish write wrote
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Página x - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Página 21 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página xl - she replied, " you can never be in want of a subject: — you can write upon any: — write upon this sofa!
Página 259 - ... his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should, but I could not forbear to inform you how the beadle threshed the thief, the constable the beadle, and the lady the constable, and how the thief was the only person concerned who suffered nothing.
Página 82 - Gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible, that a people who resembled us so little in their taste, should resemble us in any thing else.
Página 370 - You perceive therefore that you judged well when you conjectured that a line from you would not be disagreeable to me. It could not be otherwise, than as in fact it proved, a most agreeable...
Página lxx - Meanwhile, my bookseller, A. Millar, informed me, that my former publications (all but the unfortunate Treatise) were beginning to be the subject of conversation; that the sale of them was gradually increasing, and that new editions were demanded. Answers by reverends and right reverends came out two or three in a year ; and I found, by Dr. Warburton's railing, that the books were beginning to be esteemed in good company.
Página 288 - As soon as he and as many more as could find chairs were seated, he began to open the intent of his visit. I told him I had no vote, for which he readily gave me credit. I assured him I had no influence, 20 which he was not equally inclined to believe, and the less, no doubt, because Mr.
Página 5 - I might prove a very different thing from what I am at present. My character is now fixed, and riveted fast upon me; and, between friends, is not a very splendid one, or likely to be guilty of much fascination.