The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volum 6Saunders & Otley, 1835 |
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Pàgina x
... nature , and the circumstances of man , should proceed from a writer who at the time regarded God as an implacable enemy ; the earth we live on , as the mere porch to a world of punishment ; and human life , at least in his own case ...
... nature , and the circumstances of man , should proceed from a writer who at the time regarded God as an implacable enemy ; the earth we live on , as the mere porch to a world of punishment ; and human life , at least in his own case ...
Pàgina xii
... nature . But perhaps every one of these qualities is oftener the growth of age than of youth ; and is rather the tardy fruit of patient experience than the sudden shoot of untrained and undisciplined genius . In like manner , the poetry ...
... nature . But perhaps every one of these qualities is oftener the growth of age than of youth ; and is rather the tardy fruit of patient experience than the sudden shoot of untrained and undisciplined genius . In like manner , the poetry ...
Pàgina xiii
... nature as a sinè quá non in the constitution of a poet . And nature , surely , never had a more enthusiastic admirer than the Author of the Task . How feelingly does he write on this subject ! " I have loved the rural walk through lanes ...
... nature as a sinè quá non in the constitution of a poet . And nature , surely , never had a more enthusiastic admirer than the Author of the Task . How feelingly does he write on this subject ! " I have loved the rural walk through lanes ...
Pàgina xiv
... nature is not a poet : but a man can scarcely rise to the dignity of that high office who has not a touch of this enthusiasm . Poetry is es- sentially an imitative art ; and he who is no lover of nature loses all the finest subjects of ...
... nature is not a poet : but a man can scarcely rise to the dignity of that high office who has not a touch of this enthusiasm . Poetry is es- sentially an imitative art ; and he who is no lover of nature loses all the finest subjects of ...
Pàgina xv
... nature confined , in the case of our poet , to one sense . " All the sounds , " he writes , " that nature utters are delightful , at least in this country . I should not perhaps find the roarings of lions in Africa , or of bears in ...
... nature confined , in the case of our poet , to one sense . " All the sounds , " he writes , " that nature utters are delightful , at least in this country . I should not perhaps find the roarings of lions in Africa , or of bears in ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina xlvii - Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou caust, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away ! " In like manner the Millennium of Cowper is at least not inferior to the Messiah of Pope.
Pàgina 224 - Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds ; Displaying on its varied side the grace Of hedge-row beauties numberless, square tower, Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon the listening ear ; Groves, heaths, and smoking villages remote.
Pàgina 206 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Pàgina xx - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Pàgina xlviii - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Pàgina 249 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Pàgina 208 - Nor those of learn'd philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and space, Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark...
Pàgina xlii - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Pàgina 210 - I praise the Frenchman,* his remark was shrewd — How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper— solitude is sweet.
Pàgina 256 - Suspend the effect or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world, And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Formed for his use, and ready at his will...