The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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... Song PAGE 2 2 1228 A Song A Song Upon a Venerable Rival An Ode on Sir Charles Grandison In a Letter to C. P. , Esq . . In a Letter to the Same Ode on the Marriage of a Friend An Epistle to Robert Lloyd , Esq . To Joseph Hill Of Himself ...
... Song PAGE 2 2 1228 A Song A Song Upon a Venerable Rival An Ode on Sir Charles Grandison In a Letter to C. P. , Esq . . In a Letter to the Same Ode on the Marriage of a Friend An Epistle to Robert Lloyd , Esq . To Joseph Hill Of Himself ...
Page xxii
... Song on Peace . Song . The Distressed Travellers The Valediction To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut The Poplar Field Idem Latine Redditum · • Written on a page of The Monthly Review Epitaph on Dr. Johnson On the Author of Letters on ...
... Song on Peace . Song . The Distressed Travellers The Valediction To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut The Poplar Field Idem Latine Redditum · • Written on a page of The Monthly Review Epitaph on Dr. Johnson On the Author of Letters on ...
Page xxxiv
... song , Nor thirsts for human praise . " It is to be noted that most of his hymns , all written before the attack of 1773 , strike a hopeful note in marked contrast to his later miserable delusions . One other early work there is , not ...
... song , Nor thirsts for human praise . " It is to be noted that most of his hymns , all written before the attack of 1773 , strike a hopeful note in marked contrast to his later miserable delusions . One other early work there is , not ...
Page xxxviii
... song . " Of his invective such a passage as the attack on Lord Chesterfield in the " Progress of Error " might serve as an example : — " Thou polished and high - finished foe to truth , Grey - beard corrupter of our listening youth ...
... song . " Of his invective such a passage as the attack on Lord Chesterfield in the " Progress of Error " might serve as an example : — " Thou polished and high - finished foe to truth , Grey - beard corrupter of our listening youth ...
Page xli
... song , Thine endures the winter long Unimpaired and shrill and clear , Melody throughout the year . " Among the other interesting things there are the famous stanzas put into the mouth of Alexander Selkirk : there is the " Shrubbery ...
... song , Thine endures the winter long Unimpaired and shrill and clear , Melody throughout the year . " Among the other interesting things there are the famous stanzas put into the mouth of Alexander Selkirk : there is the " Shrubbery ...
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