The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, Tom 4J. Seagrave, 1806 |
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... Pope's Homer published by Mr. Wakefield , Cowper eagerly seized the book , and began to read the notes to himself with visible inter- est . They awakened his attention to his own ver- sion of Homer . In August he deliberately engaged in ...
... Pope's Homer published by Mr. Wakefield , Cowper eagerly seized the book , and began to read the notes to himself with visible inter- est . They awakened his attention to his own ver- sion of Homer . In August he deliberately engaged in ...
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... Dr. Warton has also remarked in his Life of Pope , that " in the vari- ous sorts of composition in which the English have " excelled , we have perhaps the least claim to ex- 66 " cellence in the article of Letters , of our 200.
... Dr. Warton has also remarked in his Life of Pope , that " in the vari- ous sorts of composition in which the English have " excelled , we have perhaps the least claim to ex- 66 " cellence in the article of Letters , of our 200.
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... Pope are generally thought deficient in that air of perfect ease , that unstudied flow of af- fection , which gives the highest charm to epistolary writing ; but those unaffected graces , which the de- licate critic wished in vain to ...
... Pope are generally thought deficient in that air of perfect ease , that unstudied flow of af- fection , which gives the highest charm to epistolary writing ; but those unaffected graces , which the de- licate critic wished in vain to ...
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... Pope : in truth , though many an upright man has , in a fit of honest moral indignation , begun to write satire in a persuasion that such works would benefit the world , and do honour to himself , yet even satirists of this higher order ...
... Pope : in truth , though many an upright man has , in a fit of honest moral indignation , begun to write satire in a persuasion that such works would benefit the world , and do honour to himself , yet even satirists of this higher order ...
Strona 254
... Pope , but unless we could imitate him in the closeness and compactness of his expression , as well as in the smoothness of his num- bers , we had better drop the imitation , which serves no other purpose than to emasculate and weaken ...
... Pope , but unless we could imitate him in the closeness and compactness of his expression , as well as in the smoothness of his num- bers , we had better drop the imitation , which serves no other purpose than to emasculate and weaken ...
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Adieu admirable affectionate afflicted appear bard bird-lime brother CALLIMACHU charm Cowper DEAR FRIEND dearest degree delight Dereham distress Eartham endeavour Esqr ev'ry excellent expressed eyes favourite feel friendship genius give grace Greek hand happy haste heart Homer honour hope Iliad John Throckmorton Johnny Johnson justly kind labour Lady Hesketh Latin live Lord Thurlow Mary melancholy memory merit Milton mind morning nature never nihil obliged Odyssey once passage perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope powers praise present quæ Qualia quam quod racter reader reason received rejoice Revd Romney SAMUEL ROSE seems shew sight soon sorrow spect spirit sublime sufferings talents Task tell tender thee thine thing thou tibi tion translation truly truth Unwin verse vex'd W. C. LETTER Weston Whig WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write