Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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Page 19
... seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again . This fond attachment to the well - known place Whence ... seems a dreadful thing to place a gentle and sensitive nature in contact , in familiarity , and even under the rule ...
... seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again . This fond attachment to the well - known place Whence ... seems a dreadful thing to place a gentle and sensitive nature in contact , in familiarity , and even under the rule ...
Page 30
... seem intended to make excellence disagreeable . He was a converting engine . The whole of his own enormous 20 vigour of ... seems required 30 to stir and warm that close and coarse matter . To impress any sense of the supernatural on so ...
... seem intended to make excellence disagreeable . He was a converting engine . The whole of his own enormous 20 vigour of ... seems required 30 to stir and warm that close and coarse matter . To impress any sense of the supernatural on so ...
Page 35
... seems to have by nature a great fund of gaiety . ... I must say , too , that she seems to be very well read in the English poets , as appears by several little quotations which she makes from time to time , and has a true taste for what ...
... seems to have by nature a great fund of gaiety . ... I must say , too , that she seems to be very well read in the English poets , as appears by several little quotations which she makes from time to time , and has a true taste for what ...
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