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Side xxxvi
... fancy , wit , suffice not all to raise So clear a title to affection's praise : His highest honours to the heart belong ; His virtues formed the magic of his song . We shall not lengthen the narrative of Cowper's life with an elaborate ...
... fancy , wit , suffice not all to raise So clear a title to affection's praise : His highest honours to the heart belong ; His virtues formed the magic of his song . We shall not lengthen the narrative of Cowper's life with an elaborate ...
Side xxxix
... fancy ; and he sought not to embellish what he loved . Hence his landscapes have less of the ideally beauti ful , than Thomson's ; but they have an unrivalled a charm of truth and reality . " - Campbell's British Poets . Hel " The great ...
... fancy ; and he sought not to embellish what he loved . Hence his landscapes have less of the ideally beauti ful , than Thomson's ; but they have an unrivalled a charm of truth and reality . " - Campbell's British Poets . Hel " The great ...
Side 8
... Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where Winter breathes his keenest air , And I will sing , if Liberty be ...
... Fancy's nurse ; Lost without thee th ' ennobling powers of verse ; Heroic song from thy free touch acquires Its clearest tone , the rapture it inspires : Place me where Winter breathes his keenest air , And I will sing , if Liberty be ...
Side 14
... fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment were sacrificed to sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged ...
... fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment were sacrificed to sound , And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged ...
Side 16
... fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste ; But when the Second Charles assumed the sway , And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , The mind , released from too constrain'd a nerve ...
... fancy cast , Was lumber in an age so void of taste ; But when the Second Charles assumed the sway , And arts revived beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forced into a curve , The mind , released from too constrain'd a nerve ...
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beauty beneath bids bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms Cowper death delight design'd distant divine docet Dr Johnson dread dream earth ease East Dereham eyes fair fame fancy fear feel flowers folly form'd frown give glory grace hand happy hast hear heart Heaven honour hope hour human John Gilpin land laudanum learn'd light live lost lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never night nymph o'er Olney Hymns once peace pity pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rest rude sacred scene scorn seek seem'd shine sighs sight skies smile song soon sorrow soul sound spleen Stamp'd stand stream sweet taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thought toil tongue trifler truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue voice waste whate'er WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom worth youth zeal