The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1856 |
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... nature , but too weak not to feel the bit- terness of its fate . The adversities to which men of talent are exposed , are always thus afflicting , and in most cases destructive of their very being , but there is a species of evil to ...
... nature , but too weak not to feel the bit- terness of its fate . The adversities to which men of talent are exposed , are always thus afflicting , and in most cases destructive of their very being , but there is a species of evil to ...
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... nature of tranquillized sorrow than of despondency . This great and afflicted poet was born at Berk- hampstead , November 26th , 1731. His father was rector of that place , and Chaplain to his Majesty George the Second . The family of ...
... nature of tranquillized sorrow than of despondency . This great and afflicted poet was born at Berk- hampstead , November 26th , 1731. His father was rector of that place , and Chaplain to his Majesty George the Second . The family of ...
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... nature of his melancholy , than the following letters ; the first , exhibiting the broken- hearted humility which had been converted by disease into terror . The second , the tenderness of a noble soul examining mysteries to discover ...
... nature of his melancholy , than the following letters ; the first , exhibiting the broken- hearted humility which had been converted by disease into terror . The second , the tenderness of a noble soul examining mysteries to discover ...
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... nature . The charity of his heart furnished him with his chief employment . To his own means of doing good , the estimation in which he was held added the benevolence of others , and he was ap pointed by more than one wealthy person who ...
... nature . The charity of his heart furnished him with his chief employment . To his own means of doing good , the estimation in which he was held added the benevolence of others , and he was ap pointed by more than one wealthy person who ...
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... because they adapted themselves as well to the weakness as to the good of man's mind ; and , in telling of the majesty of nature , and of the might that lies hidden in the bosom of truth , invested WILLIAM COWPER . 17.
... because they adapted themselves as well to the weakness as to the good of man's mind ; and , in telling of the majesty of nature , and of the might that lies hidden in the bosom of truth , invested WILLIAM COWPER . 17.
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