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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... heart shrunk back , in mere self - defence , against his un- sympathising companions . I have been , ' said he , in after years still remembering the miseries of his youth , all my life subject to inflammations of the 4 MEMOIR OF.
... heart shrunk back , in mere self - defence , against his un- sympathising companions . I have been , ' said he , in after years still remembering the miseries of his youth , all my life subject to inflammations of the 4 MEMOIR OF.
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... heart the delicate - minded Cowper watched the fading vision of happiness depart may be imagined from these verses . Hope , like the short - lived ray , that gleams awhile Through wintry skies , upon the frozen waste , Cheers e'en the ...
... heart the delicate - minded Cowper watched the fading vision of happiness depart may be imagined from these verses . Hope , like the short - lived ray , that gleams awhile Through wintry skies , upon the frozen waste , Cheers e'en the ...
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... heart , Yet doom'd far off in exile to complain , Eternal absence cannot ease my smart , And hope subsists but to prolong my pain . Oh then , kind Heaven ! be this my latest breath Here end my life , or make it worth my care ; Absence ...
... heart , Yet doom'd far off in exile to complain , Eternal absence cannot ease my smart , And hope subsists but to prolong my pain . Oh then , kind Heaven ! be this my latest breath Here end my life , or make it worth my care ; Absence ...
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... heart- whether they are born in reason or passion , and it is only when the poet has a singular self - possession - a rare union of poetical feeling with the energy of cool thought , that he willingly and deliberately subjects his mind ...
... heart- whether they are born in reason or passion , and it is only when the poet has a singular self - possession - a rare union of poetical feeling with the energy of cool thought , that he willingly and deliberately subjects his mind ...
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... heart , that I am content to risk something for the gratification . This preface is not designed to commend the Poems to which it is prefixed . My testimony would be insufficient for those who are not qualified to judge properly for ...
... heart , that I am content to risk something for the gratification . This preface is not designed to commend the Poems to which it is prefixed . My testimony would be insufficient for those who are not qualified to judge properly for ...
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