The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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... writer of an article in it in June 1890 , for readily waiving any objections to my including the poems from the Ash collection ( pp . 30. 412-414 , 488 ) , which were first printed in that article and to Mr. Thomas Wright , of Olney ...
... writer of an article in it in June 1890 , for readily waiving any objections to my including the poems from the Ash collection ( pp . 30. 412-414 , 488 ) , which were first printed in that article and to Mr. Thomas Wright , of Olney ...
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... writing was only an occasional amusement : in his later years it was only a partner with his spade , his walking - stick , and his box of tools , in the task of keeping the most terrible of diseases at bay . Yet even so , by simple ...
... writing was only an occasional amusement : in his later years it was only a partner with his spade , his walking - stick , and his box of tools , in the task of keeping the most terrible of diseases at bay . Yet even so , by simple ...
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... writes , fifty years afterwards , " Not a week passes ( perhaps I might with equal veracity say a day ) in which I do not think of her . " He went first to a local school , where he was unhappy ; and then to Westminster , where Lloyd ...
... writes , fifty years afterwards , " Not a week passes ( perhaps I might with equal veracity say a day ) in which I do not think of her . " He went first to a local school , where he was unhappy ; and then to Westminster , where Lloyd ...
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... mirum videtur in fæminâ ) taciturnitate est maximâ ; quando autem loquitur , crederes Musam loqui , " are the language of the Latin exercise writer , not of the lover . C appear that the two men were ever friends . Indeed INTRODUCTION xiii.
... mirum videtur in fæminâ ) taciturnitate est maximâ ; quando autem loquitur , crederes Musam loqui , " are the language of the Latin exercise writer , not of the lover . C appear that the two men were ever friends . Indeed INTRODUCTION xiii.
Page xxx
... writing to John Johnson , sends him a copy of " a very interesting mysterious poem , supposed by the tender Theodora to be written by our beloved Bard , and intended for her private intelligence as addressed to herself . " The verses ...
... writing to John Johnson , sends him a copy of " a very interesting mysterious poem , supposed by the tender Theodora to be written by our beloved Bard , and intended for her private intelligence as addressed to herself . " The verses ...
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