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 Author, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1856 |
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... sensitive in his feelings , and had a morbidness of temperament which gave to his fears a constant and substantial gloom . Many other men have suffered from too great sensi- bility , from irritation or delicacy of mind , but 10 MEMOIR OF.
... sensitive in his feelings , and had a morbidness of temperament which gave to his fears a constant and substantial gloom . Many other men have suffered from too great sensi- bility , from irritation or delicacy of mind , but 10 MEMOIR OF.
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... fear , it is after the 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 ...
... fear , it is after the 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 ...
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... fear of death . Sed hactenus hæc . Some smaller pieces upon less important subjects close the volume . Not one of them , I believe , was written with a view to publi- cation , but I was unwilling they should be omitted . JOHN NEWTON ...
... fear of death . Sed hactenus hæc . Some smaller pieces upon less important subjects close the volume . Not one of them , I believe , was written with a view to publi- cation , but I was unwilling they should be omitted . JOHN NEWTON ...
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... fear , And praised for virtues , that they scorn to wear , The fleeting forms of majesty engage Respect , while stalking o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , Was this the ...
... fear , And praised for virtues , that they scorn to wear , The fleeting forms of majesty engage Respect , while stalking o'er life's narrow stage ; Then leave their crimes for history to scan , And ask , with busy scorn , Was this the ...
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... fear . A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have On situations , that they never felt , [ dwelt Start up sagacious , cover'd with the dust Of dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if ...
... fear . A. Thus men , whose thoughts contemplative have On situations , that they never felt , [ dwelt Start up sagacious , cover'd with the dust Of dreaming study and pedantic rust , And prate and preach about what others prove , As if ...
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