Cowper, Illustrated by a Series of Views: In, Or Near, the Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks. Accompanied with Copious Descriptions, and a Brief Sketch of the Poet's LifeJ. Swan ... and published by Vernor and Hood ... ; James Storer and John Greig, engravers, 1804 - 48 |
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Strona 9 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee. 3 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! 4 There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Strona 18 - Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary ! For, could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary ! Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary!
Strona 27 - Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote. Scenes must be beautiful, which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years: Praise justly due to those that I describe.
Strona 7 - In the summer of 1765, he quitted St. Alban's, and retired to private lodgings in the town of Huntingdon, where he became acquainted with the family of the Rev. Mr. Unwin. This was the most important intimacy, from its result, that Cowper ever formed, though it was acquired in the most fortuitous way.
Strona 5 - Westminster school, where he caught the small-pox, which entirely removed his complaint. During his stay at Westminster, he experienced much of the tyranny of the elder boys, which served still more to depress a mind unassuming and timid in the extreme ; yet, notwithstanding these disadvantages, he there acquired great reputation as a scholar. At the age of eighteen, he was removed to the office of Mr. Chapman, an attorney, to whom he was articled for three years. This connection was formed contrary...
Strona 22 - ... proposed to try the effect of changing air; accordingly he was removed, though with much reluctance on his part, on the 28th of July, 1795, under the care of his relative, the Rev. Mr. Johnson, to North Tuddenham, in Norfolk, Here they resided till the end of August, when the latter gentleman conducted them to Mundsley, a place situated by the sea side, in the same county; in hopes the bracing gales from the ocean might invigorate the languid systems of his aged friends. From Mundsley, in October,...