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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... soul - This is to suffer indeed - to pay a price for genius which would be far too high for any other possession . The life of Cowper is a melancholy chapter in the history of the human mind . But it is fraught with interest of a ...
... soul - This is to suffer indeed - to pay a price for genius which would be far too high for any other possession . The life of Cowper is a melancholy chapter in the history of the human mind . But it is fraught with interest of a ...
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... soul examining mysteries to discover its own con- demnation . On being asked to compose some hymns , he writes : ' Ask possibilities , and they shall be performed ; but ask no hymns from a man suffering by despair as I do . I could not ...
... soul examining mysteries to discover its own con- demnation . On being asked to compose some hymns , he writes : ' Ask possibilities , and they shall be performed ; but ask no hymns from a man suffering by despair as I do . I could not ...
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... souls of men : His favourite topics are least insisted on in the piece entitled ' Table Talk ; ' which therefore , with some regard to the prevailing taste , and that those , who are governed by it , may not be discouraged at the very ...
... souls of men : His favourite topics are least insisted on in the piece entitled ' Table Talk ; ' which therefore , with some regard to the prevailing taste , and that those , who are governed by it , may not be discouraged at the very ...
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... soul ; But , if Authority grow wanton , woe To him that treads upon his free - born toe ; One step beyond the boundary of the laws Fires him at once in Freedom's glorious cause . Thus proud Prerogative , not much revered , Is seldom ...
... soul ; But , if Authority grow wanton , woe To him that treads upon his free - born toe ; One step beyond the boundary of the laws Fires him at once in Freedom's glorious cause . Thus proud Prerogative , not much revered , Is seldom ...
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... soul emancipated , unoppress'd , Free to prove all things , and hold fast the best , Learns much ; and to a thousand listening minds Communicates with joy the good she finds : Courage in arms , and ever prompt to shew His manly forehead ...
... soul emancipated , unoppress'd , Free to prove all things , and hold fast the best , Learns much ; and to a thousand listening minds Communicates with joy the good she finds : Courage in arms , and ever prompt to shew His manly forehead ...
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