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Side iii
... Truth , Expostulation , ▽ 1 21 37 52 Hope , Charity , Conversation , 71 91 108 Retirement , The Task , Book 1. The Sofa , 131 153 2. The Time - piece , 173 3. The Garden , 195 4. The Winter Evening , 217 5. The Winter Morning Walk ...
... Truth , Expostulation , ▽ 1 21 37 52 Hope , Charity , Conversation , 71 91 108 Retirement , The Task , Book 1. The Sofa , 131 153 2. The Time - piece , 173 3. The Garden , 195 4. The Winter Evening , 217 5. The Winter Morning Walk ...
Side ix
... truth is , his genius and predilections were little suited to legal pursuits . Instead , therefore , of poring over heavy tomes of dry legal enactment , or of judicial decision - he devoted his hours to light reading the ephemeral ...
... truth is , his genius and predilections were little suited to legal pursuits . Instead , therefore , of poring over heavy tomes of dry legal enactment , or of judicial decision - he devoted his hours to light reading the ephemeral ...
Side xvi
... truth , though vivid , was short lived . One fatal error had insinuated itself into his conceptions of the mediatorial scheme of re- covery , viz . a higher estimate of his own moral powers than is compatible with man's fallen con ...
... truth , though vivid , was short lived . One fatal error had insinuated itself into his conceptions of the mediatorial scheme of re- covery , viz . a higher estimate of his own moral powers than is compatible with man's fallen con ...
Side xxiii
... truth in a private way ; and I hope that my endeavours in this way have not been entirely unsuccessful . " That delightful family scene of domestic happi- ness , which he has sketched so inimitably in a letter formerly quoted , was ...
... truth in a private way ; and I hope that my endeavours in this way have not been entirely unsuccessful . " That delightful family scene of domestic happi- ness , which he has sketched so inimitably in a letter formerly quoted , was ...
Side xxiv
... truth was not superior to his christian experience . Such was their intimacy with each other , that Mr Newton subsequently observes , " We were seldom seven waking hours separated . " And a monument has been reared , by their joint ...
... truth was not superior to his christian experience . Such was their intimacy with each other , that Mr Newton subsequently observes , " We were seldom seven waking hours separated . " And a monument has been reared , by their joint ...
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beauty beneath bids bless'd boast breath call'd cause charms Cowper death delight design'd distant divine 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 heart Heaven honour hope hour human John Gilpin John Throckmorton land laudanum learn'd light live lost lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never night nymph o'er Olney Hymns once peace perhaps 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 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