Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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Page 47
... happy and animated than at any other time after his first illness . Clouds , however , began to show themselves soon . The circumstances are of the minute and female kind , which it would require a good deal of writing to describe ...
... happy and animated than at any other time after his first illness . Clouds , however , began to show themselves soon . The circumstances are of the minute and female kind , which it would require a good deal of writing to describe ...
Page 69
... happy ; and , in my account , denied That sensibility of pain with which Refinement is endued , thrice happy thou ! Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpair'd . The learned finger never need ...
... happy ; and , in my account , denied That sensibility of pain with which Refinement is endued , thrice happy thou ! Thy frame , robust and hardy , feels indeed The piercing cold , but feels it unimpair'd . The learned finger never need ...
Page 154
... happy as the day is long . Order yourself , my Cousin , to the Swan at Newport , and there you shall find me ready to conduct you to Olney . My dear , I have told Homer what you say about casks and urns , and have asked him , whether he ...
... happy as the day is long . Order yourself , my Cousin , to the Swan at Newport , and there you shall find me ready to conduct you to Olney . My dear , I have told Homer what you say about casks and urns , and have asked him , whether he ...
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