Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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Page 70
... soon , like all terrestrial joys . The few small embers left she nurses well ; And , while her infant race , with outspread hands And crowded knees , sit cow'ring o'er the sparks , Retires , content to quake , so they be warm'd . The ...
... soon , like all terrestrial joys . The few small embers left she nurses well ; And , while her infant race , with outspread hands And crowded knees , sit cow'ring o'er the sparks , Retires , content to quake , so they be warm'd . The ...
Page 79
William Cowper, William Hazlitt, Walter Bagehot Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford. He soon replied - I do admire Of womankind but one , And you are she , my dearest ... soon came down again ; 40 48 For saddle - tree scarce reached had he , His 79.
William Cowper, William Hazlitt, Walter Bagehot Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford. He soon replied - I do admire Of womankind but one , And you are she , my dearest ... soon came down again ; 40 48 For saddle - tree scarce reached had he , His 79.
Page 81
... soon a smoother road Beneath his well - shod feet , The snorting beast began to trot , Which gall'd him in his seat . So , Fair and softly , John he cried , But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon , In spite of curb ...
... soon a smoother road Beneath his well - shod feet , The snorting beast began to trot , Which gall'd him in his seat . So , Fair and softly , John he cried , But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon , In spite of curb ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
HAZLITT ON COWPER | 11 |
BAGEHOT ON COWPER | 17 |
Copyright | |
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