Poems ..., Volum 1W. Collins, 1834 - 564 sider |
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Side vi
... mind ought to be examined chronologically , in con- nection with the events of his history , there being a beautiful and affecting relationship between his most interesting poems and his personal circumstances , of the same date . It is ...
... mind ought to be examined chronologically , in con- nection with the events of his history , there being a beautiful and affecting relationship between his most interesting poems and his personal circumstances , of the same date . It is ...
Side viii
... mind and his writings . WILLIAM COWPER was the son of a clergyman , allied to a noble family . He lost his mother at an early age , and soon after her death was removed from his father's house , and placed at Westminster School . Here ...
... mind and his writings . WILLIAM COWPER was the son of a clergyman , allied to a noble family . He lost his mother at an early age , and soon after her death was removed from his father's house , and placed at Westminster School . Here ...
Side ix
... mind , * in a lucid interval of comparative peace , amidst a life of despondency . Without this golden occasion , all the other fruits of his genius might have fallen to the ground , ungathered by the public , be- cause , like his first ...
... mind , * in a lucid interval of comparative peace , amidst a life of despondency . Without this golden occasion , all the other fruits of his genius might have fallen to the ground , ungathered by the public , be- cause , like his first ...
Side xi
... mind which the world can neither give away . Here he was found by the family of the Unwins , with whom he soon became an inmate , and from whom he was never afterwards separated , till death had taken them one by one away , and left him ...
... mind which the world can neither give away . Here he was found by the family of the Unwins , with whom he soon became an inmate , and from whom he was never afterwards separated , till death had taken them one by one away , and left him ...
Side xiii
... mind with such an hallucination ; though a mind previously diseased might as readily fall into that as any other ; -in spite of chronology , his first aberration of reason having taken place before he had " tasted the good word of God ...
... mind with such an hallucination ; though a mind previously diseased might as readily fall into that as any other ; -in spite of chronology , his first aberration of reason having taken place before he had " tasted the good word of God ...
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ALEXANDER SELKIRK Aspasio beauty beneath bids blank verse blest boast breath cause charms Cowper deem delight distant divine dread dream e'en earth ease eyes fair fame fancy fatal egg fear feel fire flowers folly frown give glory grace hand happy hast heart Heaven honour hope hour human JOHN GILPIN JOSEPH HILL labour land light live lyre mankind mercy mind muse nature Nebaioth never night nymph o'er once peace perhaps pity pleasure poet poet's praise pride prize proud prove rapture rude sacred scene scorn seek seems shade shine sighs sight skies slave smile song soon soul sound stand stream sweet task taste telescopic eye thee theme thine thou thought thousand toil tongue trifler truth Twas verse VINCENT BOURNE virtue waste WILLIAM COWPER wind wisdom woes worth youth