The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, Volume 1J. Seagrave, 1806 |
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... doubts concerning its perfect propriety . But this is a point , which of all men living Mr. Cumberland is himself the most competent to decide , because I praised him for a benevolent simplicity of heart . This inesti- mable endowment ...
... doubts concerning its perfect propriety . But this is a point , which of all men living Mr. Cumberland is himself the most competent to decide , because I praised him for a benevolent simplicity of heart . This inesti- mable endowment ...
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... doubt , if any system of private tuition could have proved more favourable to the future display of his genius , than such an educa- , tion as he received at Westminster . There , indeed , the peculiar delicacy of his nature might ...
... doubt , if any system of private tuition could have proved more favourable to the future display of his genius , than such an educa- , tion as he received at Westminster . There , indeed , the peculiar delicacy of his nature might ...
Page xlv
... or of spleen ! Still , still , I mourn , with each returning day , Him * snatch'd , by fate , in early youth away . Sir William Bussel , the favourite friend of the young post And her --- thro ' tedious years of doubt and 16.
... or of spleen ! Still , still , I mourn , with each returning day , Him * snatch'd , by fate , in early youth away . Sir William Bussel , the favourite friend of the young post And her --- thro ' tedious years of doubt and 16.
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... doubt and pain , Fix'd in her choice , and faithful --- but in vain ! O prone to pity , generous , and sincere , Whose eye ne'er yet refus'd the wretch a tear ; Whose heart the real claim of friendship knows , Nor thinks a lover's are ...
... doubt and pain , Fix'd in her choice , and faithful --- but in vain ! O prone to pity , generous , and sincere , Whose eye ne'er yet refus'd the wretch a tear ; Whose heart the real claim of friendship knows , Nor thinks a lover's are ...
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... doubt , Sir , you was in great danger , you " had a narrow escape , a most fortunate one , indeed . " How excessively foolish , as well as shocking ! As if life depended upon luck , and all that we are , or can be , all that we have or ...
... doubt , Sir , you was in great danger , you " had a narrow escape , a most fortunate one , indeed . " How excessively foolish , as well as shocking ! As if life depended upon luck , and all that we are , or can be , all that we have or ...
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Page 16 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page xlv - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or...
Page xlv - All this, and more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...
Page 90 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
Page 102 - ... within doors or sing some hymns of Martin's collection, and by the help of Mrs. Unwin's harpsichord make up a tolerable concert in which our hearts, I hope, are the best and most musical performers. After tea we sally forth to walk in good earnest. Mrs. Unwin is a good walker, and we have generally travelled about four miles before we see home again.
Page 237 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Page 184 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes.
Page 54 - ... built as upon a rock : the fall of man, the redemption of man, and the resurrection of man, the three cardinal articles of our religion, are such as human ingenuity could never have invented, therefore they must be divine; the other argument is this. If the prophecies have been fulfilled (of which there is abundant demonstration) the Scripture must be the word of God, and if the Scripture is the word of God, Christianity must be true.
Page 270 - I have writ Charity, not for popularity, but as well as I could, in hopes to do good ; and if the reviewer should say, " To be sure, the gentleman's muse, wears Methodist shoes ; you may know by her pace, and talk about grace, that she and her bard have little regard, for the taste and fashions, and ruling passions, and...
Page 288 - With the unwearied application of a plodding Flemish painter, who draws a shrimp with the most minute exactness, he had all the genius of one of the first masters. Never, I believe, were such talents and such drudgery united.