 | William Cowper - 1824 - 372 pages
...REV. JOHN NEWTON. MY DEAR FRIEND, March 4, 1792. All our little world is going to London, the gulph that swallows most of our good things, and, like a...influence, I should tremble at the thought of a new connection ; and, to be out of the reach of its mutability, lead almost the life of a hermit. It is... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 400 pages
...REV. JOHN NEWTON. MY DEAR FRIEND, March 4, 1792. All our little world is going to London, the gulph that swallows most of our good things, and, like a...influence, I should tremble at the thought of a new connection ; and, to be out of the reach of its mutability, lead almost the life of a hermit. It is... | |
 | William Cowper - English letters - 1824 - 404 pages
...The second brother, George, now Mr. Courtenay,•* intends to * And since, Sir George Throckmorton. reside there; and with him, as with his elder brother,...influence, I should tremble at the thought of a new connection ; and, to be out of the reach of its mutability, lead almost the life of a hermit. It is... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...notwithstanding the excellence of the remarks, evinces the existence of considerable depression : — " Such is this variable scene, so variable, that had...influence, I should tremble at the thought of a new connection, and to be out of the reach of its mutability, lead almost the life of a hermit. It is well... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...notwithstanding the excellence of the remarks, evinces the existence of considerable depression. " Such is this variable scene, so variable, that, had...influence, I should tremble at the thought of a new connection ; and to be out of the reach of its mutability, lead almost the life of a hermit. It is... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...a severe trial. " All our little world is going to London," thus he writes in March of this year, " the gulf that swallows most of our good things, and,...elder brother, I have always been on terms the most agreeable."f This gentleman, afterwards Sir George Throckmorton, appears to have added worth to high... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...notwithstanding the excellence of the remarks, evinces the existence of considerable depression : — " Such is this variable scene, so variable, that had...influence, I should tremble at the thought of a new connection, and to be out of the reach of its mutability, lead almost the life of a hermit. It is well... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...desertion of the Hall, however, will not be total. The second brother, George, now Mr. Courtenay,f intends to reside there; and, with him, as with his...elder brother, I have always been on terms the most agreer able. Such is this variable scene : so variable that, had the reflections I sometimes make upon... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 358 pages
...desertion of the Hall, however, will not be total. The second brother, George, now Mr. Courtenay36, intends to reside there ; and with* him, as with his...Such is this variable scene : so variable, that, had 34 Dec. 21, 1791. *• And since, Sir George Throckmorton. the reflections I sometimes make upon it... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poets, English - 1839 - 380 pages
...desertion of the Hall, however, will not be total. The second brother, George, now Mr. Courtenay, 36 intends to reside there ; and with him, as with his...influence, I should tremble at the thought of a new connection; and, to be out of the reach of its mutability, lead almost the life of a hermit. It is... | |
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I feel the loss of them, and shall feel it, since kinder or more friendly treatment I never can receive at any hands, than I have always found at theirs. But it has long been a foreseen change, and was, indeed, almost daily expected long before it happened.... 
