The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volumen6Saunders & Otley, 1835 |
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Página viii
... mind teeming with such tendencies and capa- bilities as that of Cowper , to sleep through so long a period , and , at length , suddenly to awake , when illness and age might seem to have laid their palsying hand upon its energies , and ...
... mind teeming with such tendencies and capa- bilities as that of Cowper , to sleep through so long a period , and , at length , suddenly to awake , when illness and age might seem to have laid their palsying hand upon its energies , and ...
Página ix
... mind , as our readers are aware , led him onward from depth to depth of misery and despair , till at length he was borne away , helpless and hopeless , in the year 1768 , to an asylum for insane patients at St. Albans . Released from ...
... mind , as our readers are aware , led him onward from depth to depth of misery and despair , till at length he was borne away , helpless and hopeless , in the year 1768 , to an asylum for insane patients at St. Albans . Released from ...
Página xi
... mind - like some weapon drawn from its sheath to fight a particular battle , and then suspended on the walls again - called forth to accomplish an im- portant end , and then sent back again into ob- scurity . And it is no less an ...
... mind - like some weapon drawn from its sheath to fight a particular battle , and then suspended on the walls again - called forth to accomplish an im- portant end , and then sent back again into ob- scurity . And it is no less an ...
Página xii
... mind off its balance - maturity in thought , rea- soning , and imagination - fulness without in- flation - the " strength of the oak without its nodosities " -- the " inspiration of the Sybil with- out her contortions " -the most ...
... mind off its balance - maturity in thought , rea- soning , and imagination - fulness without in- flation - the " strength of the oak without its nodosities " -- the " inspiration of the Sybil with- out her contortions " -the most ...
Página xiii
... mind . And here we may enter on our work by ob- serving , that almost all critics have regarded an ardent love of nature as a sinè quá non in the constitution of a poet . And nature , surely , never had a more enthusiastic admirer than ...
... mind . And here we may enter on our work by ob- serving , that almost all critics have regarded an ardent love of nature as a sinè quá non in the constitution of a poet . And nature , surely , never had a more enthusiastic admirer than ...
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beauty beneath bids blasphemy blest boast breath call'd cause Charity charms Cowper delight divine dream e'en earth effeminacy eyes fair fancy fear feel fire folly fools form'd frown genius give glory God's golden ear grace Greece hand happy hast heart Heaven heavenly honour hope hour human kindled labour land learn'd light lust lyre mankind mercy Mighty winds mind muse Naiads nature never o'er once peace perhaps Pharisee pity pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry praise pride proud prove racter rapture religion Rome rude sacred satire scene scorn scorn'd Scripture shame shine sight skies slave smile song soul sound Stamp'd stand stream sublime sweet tardy taste teach telescopic eye thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue tremble trifler true truth Twas verse VIRG virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wisdom wonder youth zeal
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Página xlvii - Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou caust, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away ! " In like manner the Millennium of Cowper is at least not inferior to the Messiah of Pope.
Página 224 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear ; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Página 206 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Página xx - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página xlviii - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 249 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 208 - Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark...
Página xlii - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Página 210 - I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper— solitude is sweet.
Página 256 - Suspend the effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world, And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Formed for his use, and ready at his will...