Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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Page 52
... beginning . It is like martial music , there should be a tramp in the very versification of it : 30 Armour rusting in his halls On the blood of Clifford calls ; ' Quell the Scot , ' exclaims the lance , Bear me to the heart of France ...
... beginning . It is like martial music , there should be a tramp in the very versification of it : 30 Armour rusting in his halls On the blood of Clifford calls ; ' Quell the Scot , ' exclaims the lance , Bear me to the heart of France ...
Page 153
... beginning of June , because 20 before that time my green - house will not be ready to receive us , and it is the only pleasant room belonging to us . When the plants go out , we go in . I line it with mats , and spread the floor with ...
... beginning of June , because 20 before that time my green - house will not be ready to receive us , and it is the only pleasant room belonging to us . When the plants go out , we go in . I line it with mats , and spread the floor with ...
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... beginning of this essay : There is no writer more exclusively English . There is no one - or hardly one perhaps - whose excellencies are more natural to our soil , and seem so little able to bear transplantation . We do not remember to ...
... beginning of this essay : There is no writer more exclusively English . There is no one - or hardly one perhaps - whose excellencies are more natural to our soil , and seem so little able to bear transplantation . We do not remember to ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
HAZLITT ON COWPER | 11 |
BAGEHOT ON COWPER | 17 |
Copyright | |
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affectionately ALEXANDER SELKIRK appearance beauties blank verse Bodham Brougham Castle called charms cheerful Cousin dearest delight delineation doubt Dunciad East Dereham English ev'ry excitement eyes fancy favour feel FĂȘte ChampĂȘtre Gayhurst genius gentle give hand happy Hayley heard heart Homer honour humour John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON JOSEPH HILL knew Lady Austen LADY HESKETH Olney laugh least letter live Lord lov'd Mary melancholy mind Monthly Review morning mother Muse natura naturata nature never night o'er once Oxford Cowper pass perhaps person Pertenhall Pindus pleasure poem poet poetry Pope praise retirement rhyme scene seems shine side smile sofa soon Southampton spirit suppose sweet Task tell thee things thou thought Throckmorton Tibullus tion translation truth W. C. TO LADY walk Westminster Weston William Cowper WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wish write written