Letters. Papers in the Connoisseur. Fragments of a commentary on Paradise lostBaldwin and Cradock, 1837 |
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able acquaintance affectionately afford agreeable amusement April 11 attend believe BOOKSELLER comfort consequence COWPER DEAR FRIEND DEAR JOE dear Madam DEAR SEPHUS dear Sir desire doubt favour furnish gentleman give glad gout hand happy honour hope imagine invisible agent JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL kind Lady laugh least leave less letter LINE live Lord Dartmouth March 18 Maurice Smith mean ment merary mind never Nineveh numbers obliged observe occasion Olney once opinion opportunity oysters perhaps pieces pleased pleasure poem poet poor pounds present prove purpose Raban reason received recollect rejoice remember respect Retirement ride Pegasus Scott seems sent servant Silver End spirits suppose Taplow tell thanks thing thought tion town trouble Unwin verse Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER wish word write
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Страница i - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Страница 332 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Страница 307 - Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air And, with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Страница 336 - But I say, Did not Israel know ? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. 20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not ; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
Страница 141 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Страница 134 - ... 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.
Страница 338 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom : Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Страница 56 - Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at the door of my intellects, and still more that it should gain admittance. It is as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited in state. His antic gesticulations would be unseasonable at any rate, but more especially so if they should distort the features of the mournful attendants into laughter. But the mind long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on...
Страница 303 - But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God...
Страница 256 - I was much struck by an expression in your letter to Hayley, where you say that you " will endeavour to take an interest in green leaves again." This seems the sound of my own voice reflected to me from a distance. I have so often had the same thought and desire ; a day scarcely passes, at this season of the year, when I do not contemplate the trees so soon to be stript, and say, " Perhaps I shall never see you clothed again.