The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of ThomsonLippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851 - 537 страници |
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... beauty and sublimity of scrip- tural language , Aug. 1 ib . 1780 . 8 To the same . Pearsall's Meditations ; definition of faith , Aug. 17 168 41 To the same . Burke's speech on the reformation ; Feb. 27 ib . Nightingale and Glow - worm ...
... beauty and sublimity of scrip- tural language , Aug. 1 ib . 1780 . 8 To the same . Pearsall's Meditations ; definition of faith , Aug. 17 168 41 To the same . Burke's speech on the reformation ; Feb. 27 ib . Nightingale and Glow - worm ...
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... beauty ; and , after Thom- although he occasionally wrote a few verses , and son , Cowper is probably the poet who has added revised his Odyssey , amidst his glimmerings of most to the stock of natural imagery . The moral reason , those ...
... beauty ; and , after Thom- although he occasionally wrote a few verses , and son , Cowper is probably the poet who has added revised his Odyssey , amidst his glimmerings of most to the stock of natural imagery . The moral reason , those ...
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... beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dullness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measured time , The clock - work tintinabulum of ...
... beauty , strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art . When Labour and when Dullness , club in hand , Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand , Beating alternately , in measured time , The clock - work tintinabulum of ...
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... beauty drest , Looks to the westward from the dappled east , And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet his race begins , its glorious close ; An eye like his to catch the distant goal ; Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to ...
... beauty drest , Looks to the westward from the dappled east , And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet his race begins , its glorious close ; An eye like his to catch the distant goal ; Or , ere the wheels of verse begin to ...
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... beauty woos him with expanded arms ; E'en Bacchanalian madness has its charms . Nor these alone , whose pleasures less refined , Might well alarm the most unguarded mind , Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious ...
... beauty woos him with expanded arms ; E'en Bacchanalian madness has its charms . Nor these alone , whose pleasures less refined , Might well alarm the most unguarded mind , Seek to supplant his inexperienced youth , Or lead him devious ...
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Æsop Beau marked beauty beneath better blessing boast cause charms Christian COWPER dear cousin DEAR FRIEND death delight divine dream e'en earth ease eyes fair faith fancy favour fear feel flowers folly give glory grace hand happy hast hear heard heart Heaven honour hope hour human Huntingdon John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL labour LADY least less live Lord lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never numbers nymph o'er Olney once pain peace perhaps pleased pleasure poet poor praise prove reason rest scene scorn Scripture seems shine sight skies smile song soon soul sound sure sweet taste thee theme thine thing thou thought toil true truth Twas verse Vincent Bourne virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wind wisdom wish wonder worth youth
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