Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 5-6Robert Chambers American Book Exchange, 1880 - American literature |
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... friend , Shall through the gloomy vale attend , And cheer our dying breath ; Shall , when all other comforts cease ... friends . Darker days were at hand . 6 Cowper's father was now dead , his patrimony was small , and he was in his ...
... friend , Shall through the gloomy vale attend , And cheer our dying breath ; Shall , when all other comforts cease ... friends . Darker days were at hand . 6 Cowper's father was now dead , his patrimony was small , and he was in his ...
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... friends subscribed a further sum , to enable him to live frugally in retirement . The bright hopes of Cowper's youth seemed thus to have all vanished : his prospects of advancement in the world were gone ; and in the new - born zeal of ...
... friends subscribed a further sum , to enable him to live frugally in retirement . The bright hopes of Cowper's youth seemed thus to have all vanished : his prospects of advancement in the world were gone ; and in the new - born zeal of ...
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... friendship was at length dissolved . The lady exacted too much of the time and attention of the poet - perhaps a shade ... friends were generously active . The work appeared in 1791 , in two volumes quarto . In the interval the poet and ...
... friendship was at length dissolved . The lady exacted too much of the time and attention of the poet - perhaps a shade ... friends were generously active . The work appeared in 1791 , in two volumes quarto . In the interval the poet and ...
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... friend was actually dead ; he went to see the body , and on witnessing the unaltered placidity of death , flung ... friends . His last poem was the ' Castaway , ' a strain of touching and beautiful verse , which shewed no decay of ...
... friend was actually dead ; he went to see the body , and on witnessing the unaltered placidity of death , flung ... friends . His last poem was the ' Castaway , ' a strain of touching and beautiful verse , which shewed no decay of ...
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... friends , including Mrs. Unwin and Cowper . His life of Cowper appeared in 1803 , and three years afterwards it was enlarged by a supplement . Hayley prepared memoirs of his own life , which he disposed of to a publisher on condition of ...
... friends , including Mrs. Unwin and Cowper . His life of Cowper appeared in 1803 , and three years afterwards it was enlarged by a supplement . Hayley prepared memoirs of his own life , which he disposed of to a publisher on condition of ...
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Page 275 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 5 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a state; And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill...
Page 17 - All this, and more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...
Page 295 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 259 - He heard it, but he heeded not : his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday, — All this rushed with his blood.
Page 378 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city.
Page 137 - Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother: And in the churchyard cottage I Dwell near them with my mother.
Page 283 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.
Page 290 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown...
Page 290 - Darkling I listen ; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.