The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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... never done . The picture by Jackson at Panshanger is a composition made up from the authentic pictures and of no independent authority . Nor would the head done by Blake for Hayley , if it could be found , have any importance as a ...
... never done . The picture by Jackson at Panshanger is a composition made up from the authentic pictures and of no independent authority . Nor would the head done by Blake for Hayley , if it could be found , have any importance as a ...
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... never had a home of his own , and few people have had a narrower acquaintance with the country . It is , in fact , all through , by depth , not by breadth , by the intensity of his sympathies rather than by their extent or range , that ...
... never had a home of his own , and few people have had a narrower acquaintance with the country . It is , in fact , all through , by depth , not by breadth , by the intensity of his sympathies rather than by their extent or range , that ...
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... never became his wife ; but she remained secretly faithful to him through her long life , and carefully preserved the verses he had addressed to her , though she never met or even corresponded with him after he left London . The Latin ...
... never became his wife ; but she remained secretly faithful to him through her long life , and carefully preserved the verses he had addressed to her , though she never met or even corresponded with him after he left London . The Latin ...
Page xxx
... never - flagging wing . Think not the poet's bonds like mine to thee ! By dearer ties our kindred minds agree , Nor was his friend to him what thou art still to me . " Theodora Cowper's heart was greater than her critical judgment ...
... never - flagging wing . Think not the poet's bonds like mine to thee ! By dearer ties our kindred minds agree , Nor was his friend to him what thou art still to me . " Theodora Cowper's heart was greater than her critical judgment ...
Page xxx
... never had a comfortable hour since New Year's Day 1773 , the last day of his attendance upon public worship . " Such a man is sure to have exaggerated both the early happiness and the later unhappiness . With the innocent pleasures ...
... never had a comfortable hour since New Year's Day 1773 , the last day of his attendance upon public worship . " Such a man is sure to have exaggerated both the early happiness and the later unhappiness . With the innocent pleasures ...
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admire beauty beneath blest boast breast charms Child & Co DEAR FRIEND death Delia delight divine dream earth edition eyes fair fame fancy fear feel flowers GEORGE ROMNEY give glory grace hand happy hast Hayley hear heart heaven Homer honour hope John Fenn John Gilpin John Johnson Johnson Joseph Hill labour Lady Austen Lady Hesketh letter lines live Lord lyre mind Muse nature never Newton night numbers nymphs o'er Olney Olney Hymns once pain peace perhaps pleasure poems poet poet's poetic portrait praise prove rest scene scorn seems shade shine skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound Southey stream sweet Task taste tears tell thee theme thine things thou art thought truth Unwin Vaughan Johnson verse Vincent Bourne virtue Weston Weston Underwood WILLIAM COWPER wish Yaxham youth