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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... conversations I have had both in Scotland and in Eng- land , on this most interesting subject . Persons of truly religious principles , as well as those of little or no religion at all , have greatly . erred in their estimate of this ...
... conversations I have had both in Scotland and in Eng- land , on this most interesting subject . Persons of truly religious principles , as well as those of little or no religion at all , have greatly . erred in their estimate of this ...
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... conversation with Dr. Cotton .. Cowper's close application to the Scriptures Poetic specimen of his first Christian thoughts .. Great progress he makes in religion ..... Page 36 37 38 39 40 ib . 41 ib . His excellent remarks on the ...
... conversation with Dr. Cotton .. Cowper's close application to the Scriptures Poetic specimen of his first Christian thoughts .. Great progress he makes in religion ..... Page 36 37 38 39 40 ib . 41 ib . His excellent remarks on the ...
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... conversation with Dr. Cotton - The delightful manner in which he now passed his time - De- scription of his experience - His gratitude to God - Employs his brother to look out for him a new residence - Leaves St. Alban's - Feelings on ...
... conversation with Dr. Cotton - The delightful manner in which he now passed his time - De- scription of his experience - His gratitude to God - Employs his brother to look out for him a new residence - Leaves St. Alban's - Feelings on ...
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... conversation with the doctor , laughed at his stories , and told him some of my own to match them ; still , however , carrying a sentence of irrevocable doom in my heart . He observed the seeming alteration with plea- sure , and began ...
... conversation with the doctor , laughed at his stories , and told him some of my own to match them ; still , however , carrying a sentence of irrevocable doom in my heart . He observed the seeming alteration with plea- sure , and began ...
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... of their conversation . The patient and the physician became thus every day more endeared to each other ; and Cowper often afterwards looked back upon this period , as among the happiest days THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER . 39.
... of their conversation . The patient and the physician became thus every day more endeared to each other ; and Cowper often afterwards looked back upon this period , as among the happiest days THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER . 39.
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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.