The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the AuthorBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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Strona vi
... less correct than if printed from the original manuscript . Nor can he imagine that , even in their present form , they will on the whole , tend to diminish the well deserved reputation of their excellent author . To infer that the ...
... less correct than if printed from the original manuscript . Nor can he imagine that , even in their present form , they will on the whole , tend to diminish the well deserved reputation of their excellent author . To infer that the ...
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... pleasure To what I would reveal ; They slight me out of measure , And laugh at all I feel . The rocks receive less proudly The story of my flame DIVINE LOVE . 13 A Child of God longing to see him beloved Tom ii Cant, 144.
... pleasure To what I would reveal ; They slight me out of measure , And laugh at all I feel . The rocks receive less proudly The story of my flame DIVINE LOVE . 13 A Child of God longing to see him beloved Tom ii Cant, 144.
Strona 14
With a Life of the Author William Cowper. The rocks receive less proudly The story of my flame ; When I approach , they loudly Reverberate his name . I speak to them of sadness , And comforts at a stand ; They bid me look for gladness ...
With a Life of the Author William Cowper. The rocks receive less proudly The story of my flame ; When I approach , they loudly Reverberate his name . I speak to them of sadness , And comforts at a stand ; They bid me look for gladness ...
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... less its ease Than it adores thy ways , In thine avenging anger sees A subject of its praise . Pleased I could lie , conceal'd and lost , In shades of central night ; Not to avoid thy wrath , thou know'st , But lest I grieve thy sight ...
... less its ease Than it adores thy ways , In thine avenging anger sees A subject of its praise . Pleased I could lie , conceal'd and lost , In shades of central night ; Not to avoid thy wrath , thou know'st , But lest I grieve thy sight ...
Strona 39
... Love . Ye Birds ! that lessen as ye fly , And vanish in the distant sky ; To whom yon airy waste belongs , Resounding with your cheerful songs ; Haste to escape from human sight ! Fear less the SECRETS OF DIVINE LOVE TO BE KEPT . 39.
... Love . Ye Birds ! that lessen as ye fly , And vanish in the distant sky ; To whom yon airy waste belongs , Resounding with your cheerful songs ; Haste to escape from human sight ! Fear less the SECRETS OF DIVINE LOVE TO BE KEPT . 39.
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Strona 88 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Strona 302 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit " But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, — " It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
Strona 249 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Strona 229 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Strona 163 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Strona 303 - ... off with all his might, as he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away went Gilpin's hat and wig : He lost them sooner than at first; — for why? — they were too big. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she saw her husband posting down Into the country far away, she...
Strona 154 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Strona 70 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Strona 125 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Strona 87 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.