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... tell you , that such a life as this is confiftent with the utmost cheerfulness , accordingly we are all happy , and dwell together in unity as brethren . Mrs. Unwin has almost a maternal affection for me , and I have fome- thing very ...
... tell you , that such a life as this is confiftent with the utmost cheerfulness , accordingly we are all happy , and dwell together in unity as brethren . Mrs. Unwin has almost a maternal affection for me , and I have fome- thing very ...
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... tell me that John Gilpin made you laugh tears , and that the ladies at court are delighted with my Poems . Much good may they do them ! May they become as wife as the writer wishes them , and they will be much happier than he ! I know ...
... tell me that John Gilpin made you laugh tears , and that the ladies at court are delighted with my Poems . Much good may they do them ! May they become as wife as the writer wishes them , and they will be much happier than he ! I know ...
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... telling you that I am at prefent not only a labourer in verse , but in prose also , having been requested by a friend ... tell Mr. Frog , * how much His familiar defignation of his friend Mr. Throckmorton . I am obliged to him for his ...
... telling you that I am at prefent not only a labourer in verse , but in prose also , having been requested by a friend ... tell Mr. Frog , * how much His familiar defignation of his friend Mr. Throckmorton . I am obliged to him for his ...
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... Tell me if you expect to be punctual to your affig- nation with the public , and that the artists will be ready with their part of the business so foon as the spring of 94 ? I cannot bear to be waited for , neither fhall I be able to ...
... Tell me if you expect to be punctual to your affig- nation with the public , and that the artists will be ready with their part of the business so foon as the spring of 94 ? I cannot bear to be waited for , neither fhall I be able to ...
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... tell you so - say , rather , they for him . That were indeed a king - ennobling thought , Could they , or would they , reafon as they ought . The diadem , with mighty projects lined , To catch renown by ruining mankind , Is worth , with ...
... tell you so - say , rather , they for him . That were indeed a king - ennobling thought , Could they , or would they , reafon as they ought . The diadem , with mighty projects lined , To catch renown by ruining mankind , Is worth , with ...
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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...