The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1813 - Biography |
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... Cowper , and other celebrated wits of that period , were among the intimate associates of Mr. Colman , and gave a lustre to his name , by noticing him in some of their com- positions . Even so early as the publication of the " Ros- ciad ...
... Cowper , and other celebrated wits of that period , were among the intimate associates of Mr. Colman , and gave a lustre to his name , by noticing him in some of their com- positions . Even so early as the publication of the " Ros- ciad ...
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... Cowper , that he had at one time among his patients , that amiable and interesting poet , who speaks of Dr. Cotton's services in a manner that forms a noble tribute to his memory : and Mr. Hayley says , that Dr. Cotton was a scholar and ...
... Cowper , that he had at one time among his patients , that amiable and interesting poet , who speaks of Dr. Cotton's services in a manner that forms a noble tribute to his memory : and Mr. Hayley says , that Dr. Cotton was a scholar and ...
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... COWPER ( WILLIAM ) , bishop of Galloway , was born at Edinburgh in 1566 , and at eight years old was sent by his father to the school of Dunbar , where he made great proficiency in grammar - learning , and evinced a pious dis- position ...
... COWPER ( WILLIAM ) , bishop of Galloway , was born at Edinburgh in 1566 , and at eight years old was sent by his father to the school of Dunbar , where he made great proficiency in grammar - learning , and evinced a pious dis- position ...
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... COWPER ( WILLIAM ) , earl Cowper , lord high chan- cellor of Great Britain , was descended from an ancient family , and son to sir William Cowper , baronet , and mem- ber of parliament for the town of Hertford in the reigns of Charles ...
... COWPER ( WILLIAM ) , earl Cowper , lord high chan- cellor of Great Britain , was descended from an ancient family , and son to sir William Cowper , baronet , and mem- ber of parliament for the town of Hertford in the reigns of Charles ...
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Page 316 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 161 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 232 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 49 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 50 - It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Page 161 - And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 382 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 472 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and...
Page 161 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
Page 381 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.