The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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Page xii
... rest , like most of the landscapes , are reproduced from the engravings in Southey's and Grimshawe's editions . Some of the landscapes are taken from a beautiful quarto volume published in 1803 , entitled Cowper Illustrated by a Series ...
... rest , like most of the landscapes , are reproduced from the engravings in Southey's and Grimshawe's editions . Some of the landscapes are taken from a beautiful quarto volume published in 1803 , entitled Cowper Illustrated by a Series ...
Page xxx
... rest of Cowper's life . Among the Cowper papers of all sorts he left behind him , there are two manuscripts of his own , which are descriptions in verse of his first day at the Lodge , and of the first time he saw Teedon , the foolish ...
... rest of Cowper's life . Among the Cowper papers of all sorts he left behind him , there are two manuscripts of his own , which are descriptions in verse of his first day at the Lodge , and of the first time he saw Teedon , the foolish ...
Page xxx
... rest , who kept his mind , as far as might be , away from the delusions altogether . Nothing could have been worse for him than to obtain a correspondent to whom he could write such miserable ravings as " I waked , saying , ' I shall ...
... rest , who kept his mind , as far as might be , away from the delusions altogether . Nothing could have been worse for him than to obtain a correspondent to whom he could write such miserable ravings as " I waked , saying , ' I shall ...
Page xlii
... rest he could be trusted to do for himself , and it is pretty to see how he does it . He has given but just a hundred lines to praise of the sofa and parody of Milton , when he makes for himself an excellent way of escape . " ' Tis the ...
... rest he could be trusted to do for himself , and it is pretty to see how he does it . He has given but just a hundred lines to praise of the sofa and parody of Milton , when he makes for himself an excellent way of escape . " ' Tis the ...
Page xlv
... rest : no empty imitator , but such a scholar as the master himselt would have gladly come back to hear . " Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wanderer in their shades . At eve The moonbeam , sliding softly in ...
... rest : no empty imitator , but such a scholar as the master himselt would have gladly come back to hear . " Our groves were planted to console at noon The pensive wanderer in their shades . At eve The moonbeam , sliding softly in ...
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