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" Anson's tear: And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.... "
The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Compiled from His Correspondence and Other ... - Page 393
by Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 487 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

1824 - 564 pages
...stanza shews that it was dictated by despair and anguish of mind ; " No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When snatched from all...rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he" , Cowper was haunted with the dreadful idea of final reprobation, and well might his soul be wretched...
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The Christian Library: The life of the Rev. John Wesley

1826 - 440 pages
...misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm nllay'd, No light propitious shone, When snatched from all...We perished, each alone ; But I beneath a rougher sen, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he !" Anxious as all his friends now were, that he should be...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...misery still delights to trace Its 'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed No light propitious shone ; When, snatched from all...But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulis than he. Cranslatfons from Vincent Bourne I. THE GLOW-WORM. BENEATH the hedge, or near the stream,...
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The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Comp. from His Correspondence , and Other ...

Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone, When snatched from aH effectual aid, We perished, each alone ; But I beneath...now were, that he should be constantly employed, as this proved the best remedy for his depression, they were frequently pained to see him reduced to a...
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The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Comp. from His Correspondence and Other ...

Thomas Taylor - 1834 - 302 pages
...unspent power, His destiny repelled ; And ever, as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cry 'd ' Adieu !' No poet wept him, but the page Of narrative sincere,...But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he !" Anxious as all his friends now were, that he should be constantly employed, as this...
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The Christian Library: A Weekly Republication of Popular Religious ..., Volume 3

1835 - 440 pages
...still delights to trace Its semblanc* in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No Hght propitious shone, When snatched from all effectual...We perished, each alone ; But I beneath a rougher sen, And whelmod in deeper gulfs than he '" Anxious as all his friends now were, that he should be...
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2

Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...Atlantic, furnished him with a painful image of his own condition. No voice divine the storm allayed, j No light propitious shone ; When, snatched from all...But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. Anxious to cherish the slightest indication of poetical feeling, his kinsman attempted...
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The Life of William Cowper, Esq, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1839 - 382 pages
...another's case. Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone ; When, snatched from all...But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. Hayley has remarked how providentially friend after friend was raised up for Cowper...
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The London Saturday journal, Volumes 1-4

1841 - 986 pages
...misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone ; When, snatched from all...perished— each alone ; But I beneath a rougher sea, Anil 'whelmed in deeper gulfs than he." The whole of this melancholy picture represents the poet whilst...
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The Life of William Cowper, Esq, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 pages
...No light propitious shone; When, snatched from all effectual aid, No voice divine the storm allayed, We perished, each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. Hayley has remarked how providentially friend after friend was raised up for Cowper...
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