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... shows a wonderful improvement in the ftate of his mind . From that time his correspondence is marked by humour and playfulness , without any allufion to those folemn confiderations to which every thing had hitherto given place . Hayley ...
... shows a wonderful improvement in the ftate of his mind . From that time his correspondence is marked by humour and playfulness , without any allufion to those folemn confiderations to which every thing had hitherto given place . Hayley ...
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... shows that Lady Hesketh had bene- volently offered to increase his pecuniary resources : ( c My benevolent and generous Coufin , when I was once asked if I wanted any thing , and given delicately to understand that the inquirer was ...
... shows that Lady Hesketh had bene- volently offered to increase his pecuniary resources : ( c My benevolent and generous Coufin , when I was once asked if I wanted any thing , and given delicately to understand that the inquirer was ...
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... shows , Lefs on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with ... show , That slaves , howe'er contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth that ...
... shows , Lefs on exterior things than most suppose . Vigilant over all that he has made , Kind Providence attends with ... show , That slaves , howe'er contented , never know . The mind attains beneath her happy reign The growth that ...
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... show His manly forehead to the fierceft foe ; Glorious in war , but for the fake of peace , His fpirits rifing as his toils increase , Guards well what arts and industry have won , And Freedom claims him for her firstborn fon . Slaves ...
... show His manly forehead to the fierceft foe ; Glorious in war , but for the fake of peace , His fpirits rifing as his toils increase , Guards well what arts and industry have won , And Freedom claims him for her firstborn fon . Slaves ...
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... show far off their shining plumes again . A. Is genius only found in epic lays ? Prove this , and forfeit all pretence to praise . Make their heroic powers your own at once , Or candidly confess yourself a dunce . B. These were the ...
... show far off their shining plumes again . A. Is genius only found in epic lays ? Prove this , and forfeit all pretence to praise . Make their heroic powers your own at once , Or candidly confess yourself a dunce . B. These were the ...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper. [With a Memoir of Cowper by ..., Volume 1 William Cowper Visualização completa - 1830 |
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Página 241 - 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 198 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 199 - But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair. There's mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought ! Gives even affliction a grace, And reconciles man to his lot.
Página 238 - He soon replied, I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.
Página 362 - Could catch the sound no more: For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him: but the page Of narrative sincere...
Página 239 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more.
Página 152 - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Página 212 - And it seem'd to a fanciful view To weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas! I snapp'd it, it fell to the ground. And such...
Página 117 - Tis thus Omnipotence his law fulfils, And vengeance executes what justice wills. Again— the band of commerce was designed To associate all the branches of mankind ; And if a boundless plenty be the robe, Trade is the golden girdle of the globe.
Página 246 - 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. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...