Poems ..., Volum 1W. Collins, 1834 - 564 sider |
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Side xvi
... thou- sands who had endured the like , there could hardly be one Cowper found , who had command of ideas and words , delicate , powerful , and simple , to com- municate what he had undergone , while the worm- wood and the gall were yet ...
... thou- sands who had endured the like , there could hardly be one Cowper found , who had command of ideas and words , delicate , powerful , and simple , to com- municate what he had undergone , while the worm- wood and the gall were yet ...
Side xxxvi
... thou hast felt another's pain , " & c . Cowper spoke from personal knowledge here . Those who mock at such changes , and deem them delusive , because they have not felt the like themselves , are manifestly incompetent judges ; since ...
... thou hast felt another's pain , " & c . Cowper spoke from personal knowledge here . Those who mock at such changes , and deem them delusive , because they have not felt the like themselves , are manifestly incompetent judges ; since ...
Side xxxvii
... triple realm adores thee - thou art come From Sparta hither , and art here at home . " One of the most pleasing images in these volumes occurs in the context : - " That Grief sequestered from the public stage , May xxxvii.
... triple realm adores thee - thou art come From Sparta hither , and art here at home . " One of the most pleasing images in these volumes occurs in the context : - " That Grief sequestered from the public stage , May xxxvii.
Side xlii
... thou Source of Good , How dimly seen , how faintly understood ! " Further on , there is another strain of the same high mood , from which a very brief extract must suffice . " To mark the matchless workings of the power , That shuts ...
... thou Source of Good , How dimly seen , how faintly understood ! " Further on , there is another strain of the same high mood , from which a very brief extract must suffice . " To mark the matchless workings of the power , That shuts ...
Side 77
... thou art 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 TABLE TALK : 177.
... thou art 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 TABLE TALK : 177.
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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