Olney and Its Associations, Or, Reminiscences of the Poet Cowper. [With Plates.]Simpkin, 1880 - 61 стор. |
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... translation of some of Madame de la Motte Guyon's poetry . It is worthy of notice , that the principal works of this poet were occasioned by the request of one or other of his friends . The first volume of his poems was written , with ...
... translation of some of Madame de la Motte Guyon's poetry . It is worthy of notice , that the principal works of this poet were occasioned by the request of one or other of his friends . The first volume of his poems was written , with ...
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... translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . We now view the busiest scene of Cowper's life , and the activity of his mind was equalled by the exertions of Lady Austen to employ it . Unfortunately the poet's friendship with this lady was ...
... translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . We now view the busiest scene of Cowper's life , and the activity of his mind was equalled by the exertions of Lady Austen to employ it . Unfortunately the poet's friendship with this lady was ...
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... it are a publican and a shoemaker . " On the 1st of July , 1791 , after five years ' continued application , he published , by subscription , his translation of Homer ; which work , had he 26 Olney and its Associations .
... it are a publican and a shoemaker . " On the 1st of July , 1791 , after five years ' continued application , he published , by subscription , his translation of Homer ; which work , had he 26 Olney and its Associations .
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... it are a publican and a shoemaker . ” On the 1st of July , 1791 , after five years ' continued application , he published , by subscription , his translation of Homer ; which work , had he 26 Olney and its Associations .
... it are a publican and a shoemaker . ” On the 1st of July , 1791 , after five years ' continued application , he published , by subscription , his translation of Homer ; which work , had he 26 Olney and its Associations .
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... translation . He was afterwards applied to by his bookseller , Mr. Johnson , to engage in a splendid edition of Milton , in which the Latin and Italian poems where to have been translated , and the whole accompanied with critical and ...
... translation . He was afterwards applied to by his bookseller , Mr. Johnson , to engage in a splendid edition of Milton , in which the Latin and Italian poems where to have been translated , and the whole accompanied with critical and ...
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Olney and Its Associations, Or Reminiscences of the Poet Cowper ... William Cowper Повний перегляд - 1880 |
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acquaintance afterwards Alcove amiable appear beautiful building Clifton Reynes Colonnade Cowper says Cowper writes Cowper's Early Cowper's Name Cowper's Poems Cowper's Residence Dartmouth delight Dereham East Dereham elms eminence fame favourite flood friendship garden grove happy Hayley HENRY JACKSON Hertfordshire Hill Homer honour inscribed John Gilpin John Throckmorton lace Lady Austen Lady Hesketh letter Lord Dartmouth Market Place meadows melancholy mind Moss House mulb'rry tree Mundsley neighbours never Newton nook Norfolk North Tuddenham occasioned Olney Bridge Olney Church Olney Hymns Peasant's Nest POET COWPER poet's poetical Poplars present removed to Olney Residence at Weston retired river Ouse road from Olney rustic bridge scene scenery seen shade Shiell Hall shrubbery side Silver End Sir Cowper situation skreened Spinney spire summer house syringas Task Town of Olney translation valley village of Weston walks wall Weston Park Weston Underwood Wilderness wind window winter woods of Kilwick yews
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Сторінка 15 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Сторінка 50 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew: And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
Сторінка 33 - YE, who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents dignified by sacred zeal, Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just, Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England, exulting in his spotless fame, Ranks with her dearest sons his favourite name.
Сторінка 58 - Grenville squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kindhearted gentleman. He is very young, genteel, and handsome. He has a pair of very good eyes in his head, which not being sufficient as it should seem for the many nice and difficult purposes of a senator, he has a third also, which he wore suspended by a ribband from his buttonhole. The boys halloo'd, the dogs barked, Puss scampered;...
Сторінка 38 - Scenes must be beautiful, which daily viewed Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.
Сторінка 36 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
Сторінка 41 - The season smiles, resigning all its rage, And has the warmth of May. The vault is blue Without a cloud, and white without a speck The dazzling splendour of the scene below. Again the harmony comes o'er the vale ; And through the trees I view the embattled tower, Whence all the music.
Сторінка 41 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave : Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
Сторінка 40 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar ; paler some, And of a wannish...
Сторінка 32 - Poet through misfortune's vale. Her spotless dust, angelic guards defend ! It is the dust of Unwin, Cowper's friend ! That single title in itself is fame, For all, who read his verse, revere her name.