The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the AuthorD. Appleton, 1856 - English poetry |
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... mind , that his acquaint- ance began to apprehend the most serious conse- quences . Unfortunately , a dispute occurring in Par- liament on some contested point , it became necessary that he should , notwithstanding the nature of his ...
... mind , that his acquaint- ance began to apprehend the most serious conse- quences . Unfortunately , a dispute occurring in Par- liament on some contested point , it became necessary that he should , notwithstanding the nature of his ...
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... mind has learned to see shapes of terror wherever it turns ; when the sun and stars are as fraught with signs , as the scriptures with declarations , of destruction . Nothing can more forcibly depict the state of the sufferer's mind ...
... mind has learned to see shapes of terror wherever it turns ; when the sun and stars are as fraught with signs , as the scriptures with declarations , of destruction . Nothing can more forcibly depict the state of the sufferer's mind ...
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... mind to the composition of moral verse . Among the few , the very few , who have possessed that gift of a spirit full of the sweetness and the music of poetry , with this pure morality of purpose , is Cowper . The mind of this admirable ...
... mind to the composition of moral verse . Among the few , the very few , who have possessed that gift of a spirit full of the sweetness and the music of poetry , with this pure morality of purpose , is Cowper . The mind of this admirable ...
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