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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... feels the stings of misfortune like the being of another world , like one who was destined to be a teacher upon earth , but has found his calling neglected and despised - a spirit too noble to change its nature , but too weak not to feel ...
... feels the stings of misfortune like the being of another world , like one who was destined to be a teacher upon earth , but has found his calling neglected and despised - a spirit too noble to change its nature , but too weak not to feel ...
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... feels the sands beneath : Borne by the wave , steep sloping from the shore , Back to th ' inclement deep again he beats The surge aside , and seems to tread secure ; And now the refluent wave his baffled toil defeats . Had you , my love ...
... feels the sands beneath : Borne by the wave , steep sloping from the shore , Back to th ' inclement deep again he beats The surge aside , and seems to tread secure ; And now the refluent wave his baffled toil defeats . Had you , my love ...
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... feel . ' The next is a still more melancholy evidence of his unconquerable gloom . ' I rejoice that you and yours reached London safe , especially when I reflect that you performed the journey on a day so fatal , as I uuderstand , to ...
... feel . ' The next is a still more melancholy evidence of his unconquerable gloom . ' I rejoice that you and yours reached London safe , especially when I reflect that you performed the journey on a day so fatal , as I uuderstand , to ...
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... feel- ings had inspired him , was gradually changed into a humble and comforting trust in the Divine goodness Shortly after this improvement in his mental state , he was induced , by the persuasions of his brother , a clergyman ...
... feel- ings had inspired him , was gradually changed into a humble and comforting trust in the Divine goodness Shortly after this improvement in his mental state , he was induced , by the persuasions of his brother , a clergyman ...
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... feeling with the energy of cool thought , that he willingly and deliberately subjects his 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 ...
... feeling with the energy of cool thought , that he willingly and deliberately subjects his 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 ...
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