The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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Page xiv
... seems to have been the general feeling . Perhaps the poet's friends preferred remembering him as he faces us in this pleasant but comparatively commonplace serenity to recalling greater and sadder aspects of the features they had loved ...
... seems to have been the general feeling . Perhaps the poet's friends preferred remembering him as he faces us in this pleasant but comparatively commonplace serenity to recalling greater and sadder aspects of the features they had loved ...
Page xvi
... been made , the balance seems to me to be so decidedly against it that I have not felt justified in reproducing it with the others in this edition . CONTENTS EARLY POEMS Verses written at Bath • An attempt xvi PREFACE The Sower.
... been made , the balance seems to me to be so decidedly against it that I have not felt justified in reproducing it with the others in this edition . CONTENTS EARLY POEMS Verses written at Bath • An attempt xvi PREFACE The Sower.
Page xxx
... seems no doubt that his poem " Tirocinium , " which judges public schools so severely , was the product of reflection rather than of memory . On leaving Westminster he was placed with a solicitor , in whose house he lived , and where he ...
... seems no doubt that his poem " Tirocinium , " which judges public schools so severely , was the product of reflection rather than of memory . On leaving Westminster he was placed with a solicitor , in whose house he lived , and where he ...
Page xxx
... seems quite superfluous . It is based on nothing but the jocose Latin letter to Clotworthy Rowley , August , 1758 , and its enthusiastic allusion to a certain " puellula amabilis " at Greenwich . But , as the letter mentions that she ...
... seems quite superfluous . It is based on nothing but the jocose Latin letter to Clotworthy Rowley , August , 1758 , and its enthusiastic allusion to a certain " puellula amabilis " at Greenwich . But , as the letter mentions that she ...
Page xxx
... seems to have been a somewhat exacting Muse , and when he had got interested in the " Task " he may have let her see that he grew weary of being left so rarely free to work at it . And Hayley's explanation that Mrs. Unwin felt some ...
... seems to have been a somewhat exacting Muse , and when he had got interested in the " Task " he may have let her see that he grew weary of being left so rarely free to work at it . And Hayley's explanation that Mrs. Unwin felt some ...
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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