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 PublishedSmith, Elder and Company, 1833 - Всего страниц: 368 |
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... nature can shed no additional lustre on the memory of Cowper , yet genius , however exalted , disdains not , while it boasts not , the splendour of ancestry ; and royalty itself may be pleased , and perhaps benefited , by discovering ...
... nature can shed no additional lustre on the memory of Cowper , yet genius , however exalted , disdains not , while it boasts not , the splendour of ancestry ; and royalty itself may be pleased , and perhaps benefited , by discovering ...
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... but not- withstanding his previous serious impressions , he seems not to have had any more knowledge of the nature of reli- Nine gion , nor even to have discovered any more THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER . 7 Acquirements when he left it.
... but not- withstanding his previous serious impressions , he seems not to have had any more knowledge of the nature of reli- Nine gion , nor even to have discovered any more THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER . 7 Acquirements when he left it.
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... nature , that often , while he delighted and interested all around him , he was himself extremely unhappy . The following lines , composed by him about this time , are not less valuable , for the develop- ment they give of the state of ...
... nature , that often , while he delighted and interested all around him , he was himself extremely unhappy . The following lines , composed by him about this time , are not less valuable , for the develop- ment they give of the state of ...
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... nature . It pleased God , however , at the very outset , to prevent him from pursuing that rash and ruinous career of wickedness , into which many plunge with heed- less and awful insensibility . The feelings of his peculiarly sensitive ...
... nature . It pleased God , however , at the very outset , to prevent him from pursuing that rash and ruinous career of wickedness , into which many plunge with heed- less and awful insensibility . The feelings of his peculiarly sensitive ...
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... nature of that business , it became expe- dient that I should visit the office daily , in order to qualify myself for the strictest scrutiny . All the horror of my fears and perplexities now returned ; a thunderbolt would have been as ...
... nature of that business , it became expe- dient that I should visit the office daily , in order to qualify myself for the strictest scrutiny . All the horror of my fears and perplexities now returned ; a thunderbolt would have been as ...
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