 I was struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they who have felt the same, can have the least conception of. Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair.^...  The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Page xiby William Cowper - 1830Full view - About this book
 | 1816 - 654 pages
...career of wickedness at the very onset. I was .struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they...I had before been closely attached ; the classics bad no longer any charms for me ; I had rieed of something more salutary than amusement, but I had... | |
 | William Cowper - 1816 - 160 pages
...ruinous career of wickedness at the very onset. I was struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they...presently lost all relish for those studies, to which 1 had before been closely attached j the classics had no longer any charms for me ; I had need of something... | |
 | William Cowper - 1816 - 144 pages
...career of wickedness at the very outset. I was struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they...horror, and rising up .in despair. I presently lost all relish'for those studies, to which I had before been closely attached ; the classics had no longer... | |
 | 1816 - 660 pages
...onset. I w;is struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such ;i dejection of spirit^, ;is none but they who have felt the same, can have the...rising up in despair. I presently lost all relish f.>r those studies, to which I had before been closely attached ; ihe classics had no longer any charms... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...embittered aO much of hi« future life. " Not long after my settlement in the Temple, 1 was struck with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they who have felt the same, can have any conception of. Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror and rising up in despair... | |
 | 1833 - 958 pages
...settlement in the Temple," lie gays, '• I wa« struck with such a dejection of spirits, as none but ihnse who have felt the same can have the least conception...rack, lying down in horror and rising up in despair. 1 presently lost all reli.-h lor • n. >.-,.• studies to which I had before been closely attached.... | |
 | 1833 - 690 pages
...harassed him through life. This was, as he expressed it, " such a dejection of spirits as none but those who have felt the same can have the least conception...rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." Who, that knows any thing of dyspepsia, will not acknowledge that this was just as much a corporeal... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...after my settlement in the Temple, I was struck with such a dejection of spirits as none but those who have felt the same can have the least conception...attached ; the classics had no longer any charms for me. / had need of something more salutary than amusement, but 1 had no one to direct vie where to Jind... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 216 pages
...first attack of his disorder; "with such a dejection of spirits," he himself says, " as none but those who have felt the same can have the least conception...been closely attached. The classics had no longer any charm for me ; I had need of something more salutary than amusement, but I had no one to direct me... | |
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