Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 27
Page 24
... easy to fancy a life more happy - at least with more of the common elements of happiness or more blameless than those years of Cowper . An easy temper , light fancies , hardly as yet broken by shades of melancholy brooding ; an enjoying ...
... easy to fancy a life more happy - at least with more of the common elements of happiness or more blameless than those years of Cowper . An easy temper , light fancies , hardly as yet broken by shades of melancholy brooding ; an enjoying ...
Page 25
... easy and humorous nature loved and learned from female detail . But he had no overwhelming partiality for a particular individual . One refined lady , the first moments of shyness over , was nearly as pleasing as another refined lady ...
... easy and humorous nature loved and learned from female detail . But he had no overwhelming partiality for a particular individual . One refined lady , the first moments of shyness over , was nearly as pleasing as another refined lady ...
Page 127
... easy to promise ourselves beforehand , that our conduct shall be wise , or moderate , or resolute , on any given occasion . But when that occasion occurs , we do not always find it easy to make good the promise such a difference there ...
... easy to promise ourselves beforehand , that our conduct shall be wise , or moderate , or resolute , on any given occasion . But when that occasion occurs , we do not always find it easy to make good the promise such a difference there ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
HAZLITT ON COWPER | 11 |
BAGEHOT ON COWPER | 17 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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 Fête Champêtre 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