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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... 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 the bit- terness of its fate . The adversities to which men of talent are exposed , are always ...
... 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 the bit- terness of its fate . The adversities to which men of talent are exposed , are always ...
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... teach virtue and inculcate its sublime truths , by an appeal from the imagination to the imagination -by presenting characters already made beautiful by the action of noble principle , instead of naked principles out of which to invent ...
... teach virtue and inculcate its sublime truths , by an appeal from the imagination to the imagination -by presenting characters already made beautiful by the action of noble principle , instead of naked principles out of which to invent ...
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... the world - the reprover , but not the satirist , of men - the teacher of simple truths , which were to be rendered gracious without endangering their simplicity . ORIGINAL PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME . WHEN an author 20 MEMOIR OF COWPER .
... the world - the reprover , but not the satirist , of men - the teacher of simple truths , which were to be rendered gracious without endangering their simplicity . ORIGINAL PREFACE TO THE FIRST VOLUME . WHEN an author 20 MEMOIR OF COWPER .
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... teach : Mean you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel ...
... teach : Mean you to prophesy , or but to preach ? B. I know the mind , that feels indeed the fire The muse imparts , and can command the lyre , Acts with a force , and kindles with a zeal , Whate'er the theme , that others never feel ...
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... teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstasy , unmanacled by form ; Not prompted , as in our degenerate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise ; Was natural as ...
... teaching , or , if taught , Only by gratitude and glowing thought , Elegant as simplicity , and warm As ecstasy , unmanacled by form ; Not prompted , as in our degenerate days , By low ambition and the thirst of praise ; Was natural as ...
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