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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... rise in the soul - This is to suffer indeed - to pay a price for genius which would be far too high for any other possession . The life of Cowper is a melancholy chapter in the history of the human mind . But it is fraught with interest ...
... rise in the soul - This is to suffer indeed - to pay a price for genius which would be far too high for any other possession . The life of Cowper is a melancholy chapter in the history of the human mind . But it is fraught with interest ...
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... rise to so many distressful feelings in the bosoms of both these amiable beings . Theodora Jane Cowper was , if tradition is to be believed , in every way worthy of the poet's love , but her father , Ashley Cowper , con- sidered the ...
... rise to so many distressful feelings in the bosoms of both these amiable beings . Theodora Jane Cowper was , if tradition is to be believed , in every way worthy of the poet's love , but her father , Ashley Cowper , con- sidered the ...
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... rising as his toils increase , Guards well what arts and industry have won , And Freedom claims him for her first - born son . Slaves fight.for what were better cast away-- The chain that binds them , and a tyrant's sway : But they that ...
... rising as his toils increase , Guards well what arts and industry have won , And Freedom claims him for her first - born son . Slaves fight.for what were better cast away-- The chain that binds them , and a tyrant's sway : But they that ...
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... rising beauty dress'd , Looks to the westward from the dappled east , And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet his race begins , its glorious close ; An eye like his to catch the distant goal : TABLE TALK . 43.
... rising beauty dress'd , Looks to the westward from the dappled east , And marks , whatever clouds may interpose , Ere yet his race begins , its glorious close ; An eye like his to catch the distant goal : TABLE TALK . 43.
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... rise archbishop of the land ; Let him your rubric and your feasts prescribe . Grand metropolitan of all the tribe . Of manners rough , and coarse athletic cast , The rank debauch suits Clodio's filthy taste . Rufillus , exquisitely form ...
... rise archbishop of the land ; Let him your rubric and your feasts prescribe . Grand metropolitan of all the tribe . Of manners rough , and coarse athletic cast , The rank debauch suits Clodio's filthy taste . Rufillus , exquisitely form ...
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