 | Electronic journals - 1885 - 680 pages
...interview the poet bad with Mr. John Cox, of Northampton. This gentleman introduced himself one day as " clerk of the parish of All Saints, in Northampton, brother of Mr. Cox the upholsterer." The object of his visit was to solicit a copy of verses to append to his bill of mortality, published... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...poet's life. He thus describes it in a letter to I_ady Hesketh ; " On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired...spoke as follows : ' Sir, I am clerk of the parish of AllSaints, in Northampton, brother of Mr. Cox, the upholsterer. It is customary for the person in my... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 742 pages
...(1787) Cowper gives us the origin of his series of mortuary verses. " On Monday morning last Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired...the parish of All Saints, in Northampton ; brother o Mr. Cox, the upholsterer. It is customary for the person in my office to annex to a bill of mortality,... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 pages
...(1787) Cowper gives us the origin of his series of mortuary verses. " On Monday morning last Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired...speak with me. I ordered him in. A plain, decent, dderly figure made its appearance, and, being desired to sit, spoke as follows : ' Sir, I am clerk... | |
 | 1904 - 886 pages
...letter— to Lady Hesketh (Nov. 27, 1787)— must now suffice: "On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired to speak to me. I ordered him in. A plain, decent, elderly figure made its appearance, and being desired to... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - English essays - 1900 - 330 pages
...Cowper's inimitable lightness of touch in a letter to his cousin : — On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired...being desired to sit, spoke as follows : ' Sir, I am the clerk of the parish of All Saints in Northampton, brother of Mr. Cox, the upholsterer. It is customary... | |
 | William Cowper, Thomas Wright - Authors, English - 1904 - 512 pages
...many of them without its help, would be always at your command. On Monday morning last, Sam2 brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired...as follows : — ' Sir, I am clerk of the parish of All-Saints, in Northampton ; brother of Mr. Cox the upholsterer. It is customary for the person in... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - English letters - 1907 - 456 pages
...many of them without its help, would be always at your command. On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired...spoke as follows : " Sir, I am clerk of the parish of All-Saints, in Northampton ; brother of Mr. Cox the upholsterer. It is customary for the person in... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 484 pages
...yearly Bill of Mortality of the parish of All Saints, Northampton ' ; and he, too, would have consented. A plain, decent, elderly figure made its appearance, and being desired to sit, spoke as follows . . . [Cowper replies] ' Mr. Cox, you have several men of genius in your town, why have you not applied... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Poets, English - 1921 - 440 pages
...Cowper gives us the origin of his series of mortuary verses. " On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired...' Sir, I am clerk of the parish of All Saints, in Northampton,1 brother of Mr. Cox, the upholsterer. It is customary for the person in my office to annex... | |
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On Monday morning last, Sam brought me word that there was a man in the kitchen who desired to speak with me. I ordered him in. A plain, decent, elderly figure made its appearance, and being desired to sit, spoke as follows ; " Sir, I am clerk of the... 
