The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Comp. from His Correspondence , and Other Authentic Sources of Information: Containing Remarks on His Writings, and on the Peculiarities of His Interesting Character, Never Before PublishedKey & Biddle, 1833 - Всего страниц: 277 |
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... sure I shall continue to be , as I am at present , really happy . My affliction has taught me a road to happiness , which , without it , I should never have found ; and I know , and have experience of it every day , that the mercy of ...
... sure I shall continue to be , as I am at present , really happy . My affliction has taught me a road to happiness , which , without it , I should never have found ; and I know , and have experience of it every day , that the mercy of ...
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... sure . On being informed that his brother had made many unsuc- cessful attempts to procure him a suitable dwelling , he , one day , poured out his soul in prayer to God , beseeching him , that wherever he should be pleased , in his ...
... sure . On being informed that his brother had made many unsuc- cessful attempts to procure him a suitable dwelling , he , one day , poured out his soul in prayer to God , beseeching him , that wherever he should be pleased , in his ...
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... sure to hear no scandal , but such discourse instead of it as we are all the better for . Now I know them , I wonder that I liked Huntingdon so well before , and am apt to think I should find every place disa- greeable that had not an ...
... sure to hear no scandal , but such discourse instead of it as we are all the better for . Now I know them , I wonder that I liked Huntingdon so well before , and am apt to think I should find every place disa- greeable that had not an ...
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... sure , by your re- gard for my welfare , and was an act of particular charity . I bless God , however , that I was happy even then ; solitude has nothing gloomy in it , if the soul points upwards . St. Paul tells his Hebrew converts ...
... sure , by your re- gard for my welfare , and was an act of particular charity . I bless God , however , that I was happy even then ; solitude has nothing gloomy in it , if the soul points upwards . St. Paul tells his Hebrew converts ...
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... sure of being happy in that state , as infinite power , em- ployed by infinite goodness , can make them , and therefore , it may seem immaterial , whether we shall , or shall not , re- collect each other hereafter ; yet , our present ...
... sure of being happy in that state , as infinite power , em- ployed by infinite goodness , can make them , and therefore , it may seem immaterial , whether we shall , or shall not , re- collect each other hereafter ; yet , our present ...
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Стр. 65 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace ; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour ; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. Blind unbelief is sure to err,* And scan his work in vain : God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
Стр. 27 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Стр. 271 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature, and, though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, 'My Father made them all...
Стр. xx - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
Стр. 242 - OBSCUREST night involved the sky, The Atlantic billows roared, When such a destined wretch as I, Washed headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent. He loved them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again. Not long beneath the whelming brine, Expert to swim, he lay ; Nor soon he felt his strength decline...
Стр. 227 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more; My Mary! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary! But well thou play'dst the housewife's part, And all thy threads with magic art Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary!
Стр. 33 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Стр. 228 - Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, . My Mary ! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary ! 20 Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign, Yet gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary...
Стр. 259 - But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, ' Go spend them in the vale of tears.
Стр. 269 - Than cruelty, most devilish of them all. Mercy to him that shows it is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man : And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn.