Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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Page 48
... writing , having published my first volume , and not begun my second ) to pay my devoirs to her lady- ship every morning at eleven . Customs very soon become laws . I began the Task ' ; for she was the lady who gave me the Sofa for a ...
... writing , having published my first volume , and not begun my second ) to pay my devoirs to her lady- ship every morning at eleven . Customs very soon become laws . I began the Task ' ; for she was the lady who gave me the Sofa for a ...
Page 49
... writing , at least of writing easily , was comparatively rare , which kept the number of such compositions within narrow limits . Sir Walter Scott says he knew a man who remembered that the London post - bag once came to Edinburgh with ...
... writing , at least of writing easily , was comparatively rare , which kept the number of such compositions within narrow limits . Sir Walter Scott says he knew a man who remembered that the London post - bag once came to Edinburgh with ...
Page 150
... writing to you . If I am not obliged to you for the thing itself , at least I am for your having decided the matter against me , and resolving that it should 20 come in spite of all my objections . Before it arrived , Mrs. Unwin had ...
... writing to you . If I am not obliged to you for the thing itself , at least I am for your having decided the matter against me , and resolving that it should 20 come in spite of all my objections . Before it arrived , Mrs. Unwin had ...
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 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