The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volume 1Saunders & Otley, 1835 |
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... have forfeited . Let me hear from you , or I shall reap but half the reward that is due to my noble indifference . Yours ever , and evermore , W. C. It was hoped from the change of his station that c 2 LIFE OF COWPER . 19.
... have forfeited . Let me hear from you , or I shall reap but half the reward that is due to my noble indifference . Yours ever , and evermore , W. C. It was hoped from the change of his station that c 2 LIFE OF COWPER . 19.
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... hear from you , I should call you an idle correspondent if a post went by without bringing a letter , but I am not so unreasonable ; on the contrary , I think my- self very happy in hearing from you upon your own terms , as you find ...
... hear from you , I should call you an idle correspondent if a post went by without bringing a letter , but I am not so unreasonable ; on the contrary , I think my- self very happy in hearing from you upon your own terms , as you find ...
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... hear the word of God in public , with a dis- tracted attention , or with none at all ; to absent ourselves voluntarily from the blessed Communion , and to live in the total neglect of it , though our Saviour has charged it upon us with ...
... hear the word of God in public , with a dis- tracted attention , or with none at all ; to absent ourselves voluntarily from the blessed Communion , and to live in the total neglect of it , though our Saviour has charged it upon us with ...
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... hears me ; I must needs know like- wise , with equal assurance , that if he hears he will also deliver me , if that will upon ... hear you are going to commence lady , and mistress of Freemantle . * I know it well , and could go to it ...
... hears me ; I must needs know like- wise , with equal assurance , that if he hears he will also deliver me , if that will upon ... hear you are going to commence lady , and mistress of Freemantle . * I know it well , and could go to it ...
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... hear no scandal , but such discourse instead of it as we are all better for . You remember Rousseau's description of an English morning ; such are the mornings I spend with these good people , and the evenings differ from them in ...
... hear no scandal , but such discourse instead of it as we are all better for . You remember Rousseau's description of an English morning ; such are the mornings I spend with these good people , and the evenings differ from them in ...
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acquaintance affection affectionately affliction afford agreeable Alban's amusement answer appearance attend believe blessing brother character Christian church comfort Cousin-I Cowper dear cousin dear friend delight desire disciplined band divine doubt esteem expect faith favour feel Friend-I friendship give glad happy heart Hertfordshire honour hope House of Lords Huntingdon interest JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL June 18 kind labour LADY HESKETH least live Lord Lord George Gordon March 18 mean ments mercy mind mother nature never obliged occasion Olney Olney hymns perhaps piety pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poor pray present Private Correspondence reason received recollect remember respect Scripture seems sensible sorrow spirit suppose sure tender thank thee thing thou thought tion truth verses W. C. TO JOSEPH W. C. TO LADY Westminster school William Cowper WILLIAM UNWIN wish word write wrote
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Page 24 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Page 3 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession! but the record fair That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced. Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 214 - In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind.
Page 3 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or...
Page 73 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
Page 251 - I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibul'lus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.
Page 156 - At present, the difference between them and me is greatly to their advantage. I delight in baubles, and know them to be so ; for rested in, and -viewed without a reference to their Author, what is the earth, what are the planets, what is the sun itself but a bauble? Better for a man never to have seen them, or to see them with the eyes of a brute, stupid and unconscious of what he beholds, than not to be able to say, " The Maker of all these wonders is my friend...
Page 140 - It is like that of a fine organ ; has the fullest and the deepest tones of majesty, with all the softness and elegance of the. Dorian flute. Variety without end and never equalled, unless perhaps by Virgil.
Page 136 - If government should impose another tax upon that commodity I hardly know a business in which a gentleman might more successfully employ himself. A Chinese, of ten times my fortune, would avail himself of such an opportunity without scruple ; and why should not I, who want money as much as any mandarin in China ? Rousseau would have been charmed to have seen me so occupied, and would have exclaimed with rapture, " that he had found the Emilius who (he supposed) had subsisted only in his own idea.
Page 270 - ... tis only her plan to catch, if she can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way, by a production, on a new construction ; she has baited her...