Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other PoemsMacmillan, 1909 - Всего страниц: 268 |
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... Cowper writes : " I have been read- ing Gray's works , and think him the only poet since Shakespeare entitled to the character of sublime . " Adam Smith says : " Gray joins to the sublimity of Milton the elegance and harmony of Pope ...
... Cowper writes : " I have been read- ing Gray's works , and think him the only poet since Shakespeare entitled to the character of sublime . " Adam Smith says : " Gray joins to the sublimity of Milton the elegance and harmony of Pope ...
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... COWPER WILLIAM COWPER was born at Great Berkhamp- stead , Hertfordshire , England , on November 15 , 1731. His father , the Reverend John Cowper , chaplain to George the Second and rector of Great Berkhampstead , was a descendant of one ...
... COWPER WILLIAM COWPER was born at Great Berkhamp- stead , Hertfordshire , England , on November 15 , 1731. His father , the Reverend John Cowper , chaplain to George the Second and rector of Great Berkhampstead , was a descendant of one ...
Стр. xvii
... Cowper took chambers in the Inner Temple . By this step he presumably became a regular student of law , although his advancement was no more rapid now than before . While he no longer passed his time in idleness , instead of giving his ...
... Cowper took chambers in the Inner Temple . By this step he presumably became a regular student of law , although his advancement was no more rapid now than before . While he no longer passed his time in idleness , instead of giving his ...
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... Cowper re- moved with Mrs. Unwin to Olney in Buckingham- shire , where John Newton was curate . The change proved a beneficial one , for although the poet was again attacked by insanity in 1773 , he was in the midst of sympathetic ...
... Cowper re- moved with Mrs. Unwin to Olney in Buckingham- shire , where John Newton was curate . The change proved a beneficial one , for although the poet was again attacked by insanity in 1773 , he was in the midst of sympathetic ...
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... Cowper had lately become acquainted . These volumes , and especially the second , had a powerful effect upon the literary tastes of the time , and mark the beginning of a new order in English poetry . In them love of nature ...
... Cowper had lately become acquainted . These volumes , and especially the second , had a powerful effect upon the literary tastes of the time , and mark the beginning of a new order in English poetry . In them love of nature ...
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