Letters of William CowperMacmillan and Company, 1899 - 316 pàgines |
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Letters of William Cowper: Chosen and Edited with a Memoir and a ..., Volum 2 William Cowper Visualització completa - 1912 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
acquaintance Adieu admire affectionate agreeable amuse answer believe blank verse Bodham brother called comfort Cowper dear friend dearest cousin delightful Eartham expect favour feel FRIEND-I garden Gayhurst give glad hand happy Hayley hear heard heart Homer honour hope Iliad Isle of Thanet John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL LADY HESKETH lately least less letter live LODGE Margate mind morning Netley Abbey never Newport Pagnell night obliged occasion Olney parlour perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetry poor possible present purpose reason received remember rhyme seems seen sent September 24 soon sorry spirits suffered suppose sure tell thank thee things thought thousand Throckmorton Tibullus tion truth verse W. C. TO JOSEPH walk Weston WESTON UNDERWOOD WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY WILLIAM UNWIN wish write wrote yesterday
Passatges populars
Pàgina 87 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Pàgina 38 - Better for a man never to have seen them, or to see them with the eyes of a brute, stupid and unconscious of what he beholds, than not to be able to say, " The Maker of all these wonders is my friend...
Pàgina 306 - ... guarding my face with an umbrella, that inconvenience is in some degree abated. My chamber commands a very near view of the ocean, and the ships at high water approach the coast so closely, that a man furnished with better eyes than mine 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.
Pàgina 38 - I deal much in ink indeed, but not such ink as is employed by poets and writers of essays. Mine is a harmless fluid, and guilty of no deceptions but such as may prevail without the least injury to the person imposed on. I draw mountains, valleys, woods, and streams, and ducks, and dab-chicks. I admire them myself, and Mrs. Unwin admires them ; and her praise, and my praise put together, are fame enough for me.
Pàgina 159 - It is a great thing to be indeed a poet, and does not happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill,' the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet : I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three times over, and the last time with more pleasure than the first. The pitiful scribbler of his life seems to have undertaken that task, for which he was entirely unqualified, merely because it afforded him an opportunity to traduce him.
Pàgina 57 - ... and humanity, that makes him, in my mind, one of the most amiable writers in the world. It is not common to meet with an author who can make you smile, and yet at nobody's expense; who is always entertaining, and yet always harmless ; and who, though always elegant, and classical to a degree not always found in the classics themselves, charms more by the simplicity and playfulness of his ideas, than by the neatness and purity of his verse ; yet such was poor Vinny.
Pàgina 305 - I will forget, for a moment, that to whomsoever I may address myself. a letter from me can no otherwise be welcome, than as a curiosity. To you. Sir, I address this ; urged to it by extreme penury of employment, and the desire I feel to learn something of what is doing, and has been done at Weston (my beloved VVeston!) since I left it.
Pàgina 89 - A dissenter, but a liberal one ; a man of letters, and of genius ; master of a fine imagination, or rather not master of it — an imagination which, when he finds himself in the company he loves, and can confide in, runs away with him into such fields of speculation, as amuse and enliven every 'other imagination that has the happiness to be of the party ! at other times he has a tender and delicate sort of melancholy in his disposition, not less agreeable in its way. No men are better qualified...
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Letters of William Cowper Golden treasury series |
| Autor | William Cowper |
| Editor | William Benham |
| Editor | Macmillan and Company, 1899 |
| Original de | Universitat de Harvard |
| Digitalitzat el | 15 Febr. 2008 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 316 pàgines |
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