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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... racter of a morbid melancholy . This natural tendency of his constitution was considerably strengthened by its being unfortunately deemed necessary to send him , at a very early age ; to a distance from home . Delicate as he was , both ...
... racter of a morbid melancholy . This natural tendency of his constitution was considerably strengthened by its being unfortunately deemed necessary to send him , at a very early age ; to a distance from home . Delicate as he was , both ...
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... racter for a public school , left it with the reputation of an excellent and accomplished classic . But the whole of his early life appears to have been misdirected , not , as Mr. Hayley says , by a perverse destiny ; but by a most ...
... racter for a public school , left it with the reputation of an excellent and accomplished classic . But the whole of his early life appears to have been misdirected , not , as Mr. Hayley says , by a perverse destiny ; but by a most ...
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