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" ... arbitrary measure here ; Else- could a law like that which I relate, Once have the sanction of our triple state, Some few, that I have known in days of old, Would run most dreadful risk of catching cold ; While you, my friend, whatever wind should... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 145
1831
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A First Gallery of Literary Portraits, Volume 1

George Gilfillan - 1851 - 316 pages
...head-dress of various ages, to the great-coat of the modern Briton, who, in the description of Cowper, is An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. The finest of Keats's smaller pieces are, "Lines written on Chapman's Homer" (the only translation...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...catching cold ; While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. " TIROCINIUM: OR, A REVIEW OF SCIIOOLa ofa PLATO. AfX* *oA«Tt»af 0*009$ V(»f TW*i DIOO. LAERT. TO...
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The drawing-room sibyl (poetical extracts).

Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...can reason well of good or ill ; — Too poor, too proud, too just, too wise, to wed. E. Elliott. 41 An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. Cowper. 42 Ingenuous, faithful, generous, and noble, Even but to look on him is a full warrant Against...
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Galleries of Literary Portraits, Volume 1

George Gilfillan - 1856 - 358 pages
...iead-dress of various ages, to the greatoat of the modern Briton, who, in the .escription of Cowper, is An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within." The finest of Keats' smaller pieces are, 'Lines written on Chapman's Homer" the only translation which...
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Poets. French revolutionists. Novelists

George Gilfillan - 1856 - 344 pages
...ages, to the greatcoat of the modern Briton, who, in the escription of Cowper, is An honest ниш, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within." Th« finest of Keats' smaller pieces are, Lines written on Chapman's Homer" the only translation which...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper. With Life of the Author

William Cowper - 1864 - 454 pages
...catching cold ; While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow, Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. THE YEARLY DISTRESS, OR TITHING TIME AT STOCK IN ESSEX. Verses addressed to a country Clergyman, complaining...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1866 - 720 pages
...catching cold. While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow, Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. TIEOCINIUM; OB, A KEVIEW OF SCHOOLS K/-£a\fuoi' Stj iraiduac opOrj TpoQij. PLATO. Ap%rj iroXiritas...
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Lyra elegantiarum, a collection of some of the best specimens of vers de ...

Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 428 pages
...catching cold ; While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow, Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. William Cou'per. CCCLXIX. CATHARINA. Addressed to Miss Staplettm. SHE came — she is gone— we have...
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The task, Tirocinium, and other poems, Issue 350

William Cowper - 1872 - 290 pages
...catching cold. While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow, Might traverse England safely to and fre, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. TO THE REV. MR NEWTON ON HIS RETURN FROM RAMSGATE. THAT ocean you have late survey'd, Those rocks I...
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The task; Tirocinium, etc

William Cowper - 1875 - 352 pages
...Colman, Lloyd, and Bonnell Thornton ; and here he formed a life-long -friendship with Joseph Hill, that 'honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.' With Colman and Thornton, Cowper now entered into literary engagements. Whilst yet at Christ Church,...
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