The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Comp. from His Correspondence and Other Authentic Sources of Information; Containing Remarks on His Writings, and on the Peculiarities of His Interesting Character, Never Before PublishedKey & Biddle, 1834 - 288 pages |
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... Becomes an inmate with the family ... 55 The happy state of his mind , and the manner in which he had spent his time .... ib . 57 Continued fervour of his piety .... 60 Watchfulness and care over his heart .. 62 63 35 Of Christians ...
... Becomes an inmate with the family ... 55 The happy state of his mind , and the manner in which he had spent his time .... ib . 57 Continued fervour of his piety .... 60 Watchfulness and care over his heart .. 62 63 35 Of Christians ...
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... becoming an author 50 Sends the work to the press ........ Great pains he took with his compositions Mr. Newton's preface to the volume .... Its publication , and how it was received State of his mind while composing it .. His ardent ...
... becoming an author 50 Sends the work to the press ........ Great pains he took with his compositions Mr. Newton's preface to the volume .... Its publication , and how it was received State of his mind while composing it .. His ardent ...
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... Becomes intimate with the Throckmorton family Remarks on the effect of frequent removals .. Description of his religious experience 133 134 ........ 135 CHAPTER XI 137 Ill - grounded apprehensions of his friends 139 Reasons for ...
... Becomes intimate with the Throckmorton family Remarks on the effect of frequent removals .. Description of his religious experience 133 134 ........ 135 CHAPTER XI 137 Ill - grounded apprehensions of his friends 139 Reasons for ...
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... become imbued with religious feelings of the highest order , received its first serious impressions - a circumstance which cannot fail to be interesting to every Christian reader , and the more so as detailed in his own words . " One ...
... become imbued with religious feelings of the highest order , received its first serious impressions - a circumstance which cannot fail to be interesting to every Christian reader , and the more so as detailed in his own words . " One ...
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... become so overwhelming , as to induce that lamented aberration of mind under which he is generally known to have suffered . The dreadful ap- prehensions which for so long a time had haunted him day and night , leaving him not a moment's ...
... become so overwhelming , as to induce that lamented aberration of mind under which he is generally known to have suffered . The dreadful ap- prehensions which for so long a time had haunted him day and night , leaving him not a moment's ...
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Page 282 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Page 31 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Page 41 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 78 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 16 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
Page 255 - Could catch the sound no more : For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him : but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with 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.
Page 283 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His t...
Page 259 - YE, who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents dignified by sacred zeal, Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just, Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England, exulting in his spotless fame, Ranks with her dearest sons his favourite name.
Page 255 - OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, Washed headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent. He loved them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again. Not long beneath the whelming brine...
Page 46 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.