The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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... Human Frailty . 221 • The Modern Patriot . 222 · On Observing some Names of Little Note recorded in the Biographia Britannica 222 • Report of an Adjudged Case On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library 223 • • 224 On the same The Love ...
... Human Frailty . 221 • The Modern Patriot . 222 · On Observing some Names of Little Note recorded in the Biographia Britannica 222 • Report of an Adjudged Case On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library 223 • • 224 On the same The Love ...
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... next after his decease The Same in English · · In Brevitatem Vitae Spatii Hominibus Concessi On the Shortness of Human Life · 614 · 615 616 616 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE LATIN CLASSICS The Fifth Satire of the xxvi CONTENTS.
... next after his decease The Same in English · · In Brevitatem Vitae Spatii Hominibus Concessi On the Shortness of Human Life · 614 · 615 616 616 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE LATIN CLASSICS The Fifth Satire of the xxvi CONTENTS.
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... human life a kind of sacramental bond , he has nothing . those sympathies whose very life it is that they are a peculiar possession , our own and not another's , no one ever had more . He lives by the power with which he reveals the ...
... human life a kind of sacramental bond , he has nothing . those sympathies whose very life it is that they are a peculiar possession , our own and not another's , no one ever had more . He lives by the power with which he reveals the ...
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... human diseases , and even after he had so definitely realized that it could be nothing more than a memory as to have contemplated a union of a very different kind with one towards whom his feelings were those of deep but very calm and ...
... human diseases , and even after he had so definitely realized that it could be nothing more than a memory as to have contemplated a union of a very different kind with one towards whom his feelings were those of deep but very calm and ...
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... human being and successful poet he became after 1780 , and it was a good day for his friend and for us when he became Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth , and left Olney . Few are the poets who reach fifty before their first volume sees the ...
... human being and successful poet he became after 1780 , and it was a good day for his friend and for us when he became Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth , and left Olney . Few are the poets who reach fifty before their first volume sees the ...
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