 | Books - 1824 - 564 pages
...have just quoted, for the last stanza shews that it was dictated by despair and anguish of mind ; " No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious...But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he" , Cowper was haunted with the dreadful idea of final reprobation, and well might his... | |
 | English literature - 1804 - 844 pages
...heard his voice m ev'ry blast, Could catch the sound no more. For then, by toil subdued, he drank Tiie stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him...melancholy theme A more enduring date ; But misery stiil delights to trace Its 'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm alhy'd, No light... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 456 pages
...his worth, his ag(. Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize- the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay d, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'dfrom all effectual aid. We perish'd, each alone ;... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 450 pages
...his age, Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. ' / therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay' dt No light propitious shone ; When, snatch' d from all ejfectual aid, We perish'd, each alone... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 452 pages
...his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting...delights to trace Its 'semblance in another's case. i No voice divine the storm allay d, No light propitious shone ; When, snatch'djrom all effectual aid,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 220 pages
...: but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson',s tear. And tears, by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalise...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone ; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 222 pages
...And tears, by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalise the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dreamy Descanting on his fate, \ To give the melancholy theme...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 486 pages
...his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone ; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 330 pages
...his worth, his age,. Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears, by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream,. Descanting...give the melancholy theme A more enduring date. But mifery still delights to trace. Its 'semblance m.another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd,.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 472 pages
...his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear. And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting...'semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allay'd, No light propitious shone; When, snatch'd from all effectual aid, We perish'd, each alone... | |
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Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone: But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. 
