The Works of William Cowper: With a Life and Notes, Volume 2Fraser & Company, 1835 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Adieu admire Æneid affectionate agreeable amusement answer beautiful believe blank verse Bodham called comfort consequently Cowper DEAR FRIEND DEAR WILLIAM dearest cousin delighted Dr Johnson Eartham expect favour February 27 feel finished Gentleman's Magazine give glad happy hear heart honour hope Iliad John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL labour LADY HESKETH least letter lines live LODGE matter mean melancholy mind morning neighbours never numbers obliged occasion Odyssey Olney once opinion perhaps Pict pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor Pope possible present reason received rejoice respect SAMUEL ROSE seems sensible sent shew soon spirits suffered suppose sure taste tell thank thing thought Throckmorton tion translation of Homer truth Villoison volume walk WALTER BAGOT WESTON WESTON UNDERWOOD whole WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN winter wish write wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 262 - I shall gladly accept of it. A melancholy pleasure is better than none, nay verily, better than most. He had a sad task imposed on him, but no man could acquit himself of such a one with more discretion, or with more tenderness. The death of the unfortunate young man reminded me of those lines in Lycidas : It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine ! How beautiful ! WC 326.
Pagina 70 - My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.
Pagina 65 - I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm-yard, is no bad performer...
Pagina 416 - You describe delightful scenes, but you describe them to one who, if he even saw them, could receive no delight from them, — who has a faint recollection, and so faint as to be like an almost forgotten dream, that once he was susceptible of pleasure from such causes. The country that you have had in prospect : has been always famed for its beauties ; but the wretch who can derive no gratification from a view of nature, even under the disadvantage of her most ordinary dress, will have no eyes to...
Pagina 95 - I WRITE in a nook that I call my Boudoir. It is a summer-house not much bigger than a sedan chair, the door of which opens into the garden, that is now crowded with pinks, roses, and honey-suckles, and the window into my neighbour's orchard. It formerly served an apothecary, now dead, as a smoking-room ; and under my feet is a trap-door, which once covered a hole in the ground, where he kept his bottles. At present however it is dedicated to sublimer uses.
Pagina 36 - DEAR FRIEND : It being his Majesty's pleasure that I should yet have another opportunity to write before he dissolves the Parliament, I avail myself of it with all possible alacrity. I thank you for your last, which was not the less welcome for coming, like an extraordinary gazette, at a time when it was not expected. " As when the sea is uncommonly agitated, the water finds its way into creeks and holes of rocks, which in its calmer state it never reaches, in like manner the effect of these turbulent...
Pagina 36 - Puss * was unfortunately let out of her box, so that the candidate, with all his good friends at his heels, was refused admittance at the grand entry, and referred to the back door, as the only possible way of approach.
Pagina 221 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Pagina 415 - ... might, I doubt not, discern the sailors from the window. No situation, at least when the weather is clear and bright, can be pleasanter ; which you will easily credit, when I add, that it imparts something a little resembling pleasure even to me. — Gratify me with news of Weston ! If Mr. Gregson, and your neighbours the Courtenays are there, mention me to them in such terms as you see good. Tell me if my poor birds are living II never see the herbs I used to give them, without a recollection...
Pagina 37 - ... informed me that I had a great deal. Supposing that I could not be possessed of such a treasure without knowing it, I ventured to confirm my first assertion, by saying, that if I had any I was utterly at a loss to imagine where it could be, or wherein it consisted. Thus ended the conference. Mr G squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and withdrew.