Selections from Cowper's PoemsMacmillan, 1883 - 234 pages |
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... feeling , and has gone out of fashion all the more completely for the temporary causes which at his outset added to his fame . There are almost always some adventitious circumstances to increase the due weight of poetic merit with the ...
... feeling , and has gone out of fashion all the more completely for the temporary causes which at his outset added to his fame . There are almost always some adventitious circumstances to increase the due weight of poetic merit with the ...
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... feeling . The pro- gress of life , the development of the austere and lofty virtues that harmonise with his mountains , the noble if sometimes strained philosophy with which he fits in evil and good to his scheme of the universe ...
... feeling . The pro- gress of life , the development of the austere and lofty virtues that harmonise with his mountains , the noble if sometimes strained philosophy with which he fits in evil and good to his scheme of the universe ...
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William Cowper (the Poet.) sentiment , with the development of human feeling and the life of thought . But Cowper stands before us in a gentle originality which is less profound indeed , but more simple , more disinterested than any of ...
William Cowper (the Poet.) sentiment , with the development of human feeling and the life of thought . But Cowper stands before us in a gentle originality which is less profound indeed , but more simple , more disinterested than any of ...
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... feeling . It has neither mountains nor oceans , no exciting magnitude or grandeur , no glory of tropical sunshine or dazzling colour of the South . The country which breathes about us so fresh and dewy is the homeliest English country ...
... feeling . It has neither mountains nor oceans , no exciting magnitude or grandeur , no glory of tropical sunshine or dazzling colour of the South . The country which breathes about us so fresh and dewy is the homeliest English country ...
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... feels himself engaged to achieve No unimportant , though a silent task . The morning finds the self - sequestered man Fresh for his task , intend what task he may . Whether inclement seasons recommend His warm but simple home ...
... feels himself engaged to achieve No unimportant , though a silent task . The morning finds the self - sequestered man Fresh for his task , intend what task he may . Whether inclement seasons recommend His warm but simple home ...
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Beau marked beauty beneath birds Book charms clouds COVENTRY PATMORE Cowper cried dear death delight distant divine dream earth ease fame fancy farewell fast fear feel flagged admiral flew flocks flower FRANCIS TURNER Palgrave Gilpin grace half happy harmony Harrow School heard heart Heaven HEIR OF REDCLYFFE homeless birds hope John Gilpin king knew knows labour land light live Lord lyre MARK LEMON mind muse nature Nature's never Nose o'er once peace perhaps play pleasure poet poet's poor praise scene scorn seems Selected and arranged shade shine sight silent SIR NOEL PATON skies smile song soon soul sound storm stout spurs sway sweet Task tear thee theme thine thou hast thought thy growth toil tongue truth Twas verse virtue WARREN HASTINGS whate'er WILLIAM ALLINGHAM wind winter wonder youth
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Page 24 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on th
Page 156 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take : The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 129 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 231 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Page 80 - 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 earned.
Page 218 - His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men. — Weigh the vessel up Once dreaded by our foes ! And mingle with our cup The tears that England owes. Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again Full charged with England's thunder, And plough the distant main: But Kempenfelt is gone, His victories are o'er; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave no more.
Page 79 - 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...
Page 131 - How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on.
Page 167 - Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty, screaming, came down stairs, The wine is left behind ! Good lack ! quoth he — yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Page 137 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.