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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... scene of trouble closed , And hoped once more to gaze upon your charms ; As oft some dire mischance has interposed , And snatch'd th ' expected blessing from my arms . The seaman thus , his shatter'd vessel lost , Still vainly strives ...
... scene of trouble closed , And hoped once more to gaze upon your charms ; As oft some dire mischance has interposed , And snatch'd th ' expected blessing from my arms . The seaman thus , his shatter'd vessel lost , Still vainly strives ...
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... scenes and harmonies of nature into the focus of his own heart , and of embuing them there with light and grace . He had an intensity and delicacy of feeling which made him perceive what is most beau- tiful in the complicated character ...
... scenes and harmonies of nature into the focus of his own heart , and of embuing them there with light and grace . He had an intensity and delicacy of feeling which made him perceive what is most beau- tiful in the complicated character ...
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... scenes , which through length of time they had almost forgotten . They will be reminded of one , who was once the companion of their chosen hours , and who set out with them in early life in the paths which lead to literary honours , to ...
... scenes , which through length of time they had almost forgotten . They will be reminded of one , who was once the companion of their chosen hours , and who set out with them in early life in the paths which lead to literary honours , to ...
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... scene , when Chatham died . B. Not so the virtue still adorns our age , Though the chief actor died upon the stage . In him Demosthenes was heard again : Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She cloth'd him with authority and awe ...
... scene , when Chatham died . B. Not so the virtue still adorns our age , Though the chief actor died upon the stage . In him Demosthenes was heard again : Liberty taught him her Athenian strain ; She cloth'd him with authority and awe ...
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... scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land , And ...
... scene . All are his instruments ; each form of war , What burns at home , or threatens from afar , Nature in arms , her elements at strife , The storms that overset the joys of life , Are but his rods to scourge a guilty land , And ...
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